Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1998 M01 15 - 336 páginas Nationalizing Blackness uses the music of the 1920s and 1930s to examine Cuban society as it begins to embrace Afrocuban culture. Moore examines the public debate over “degenerate Africanisms” associated with comparas or carnival bands; similar controversies associated with son music; the history of blackface theater shows; the rise of afrocubanismo in the context of anti-imperialist nationalism and revolution against Gerardo Machado; the history of cabaret rumba; an overview of poetry, painting, and music inspired by Afrocuban street culture; and reactions of the black Cuban middle classes to afrocubanismo. He has collected numerous illustrations of early twentieth-century performers in Havana, many included in this book. Nationalizing Blackness represents one of the first politicized studies of twentieth-century culture in Cuba. It demonstrates how music can function as the center of racial and cultural conflict during the formation of a national identity. |
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... contributed to the development of this project . In part , my decision to conduct research in Cuba was informed by the belief that Cuba is being treated unfairly by the United States government and its current foreign policy . This is ...
... contributed to this ideological shift . The 1920s was a period of tremendous upheaval and unrest in Cuba , to such an extent that the begin- nings of cultural change are largely obscured by more visible events . The is- land experienced ...
... contributed to the nationalization of Afrocuban culture . Influential figures such as Ignacio Villa , Eusebia Cosme , and Rita Montaner mediated in an important sense between " the street " and " the elite , " disseminating stylized ...
... contribution of cultural study to all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences . Cultural history has too ... contributed significantly to the lit- erature on early twentieth - century Cuba , but their work remains largely fo ...
... contribution that the study of culture can make to Cuban history is to shed new light on racial discourse . Prior to the mid - twentieth century , belief in the biologically based superiority of the Caucasian race was widely accepted in ...
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COMPARSAS AND CARNIVAL IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Four Decades of Cultural Controversy | 62 |
ECHALE SALSITA Sones and Musical Revolution | 87 |
NATIONALIZING BLACKNESS The Vogue of Afrocubanismo | 114 |
THE RUMBA CRAZE Afrocuban Arts as International Popular Culture | 166 |
THE MINORISTA VANGUARD Modernism and Afrocubanismo | 191 |
CONCLUSION | 215 |
APPENDIX 1 | 229 |
NOTES | 243 |
GLOSSARY | 275 |
REFERENCES | 289 |
INDEX | 313 |
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Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana ... Robin D. Moore Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana ... Robin D. Moore Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |