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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... ensembles associated with street parades and carnivalesque celebration . It begins with early accounts of comparsas as described by observers of Kings ' Day ( Dia de Reyes , 6 January ) slave festivities of the nineteenth century . It ...
... ensembles accepted blacks and mulattos in the early nineteenth century , many white orchestras employed them as bassists and timbal or percussion players . By the 1830s , Afrocubans had become part of middle - class musical life , both ...
... ensembles . By the 1830s and early 1840s , so many Afrocuban musicians were perform- ing European - style music that ... ensemble and the prominence of rhythmic patterns and improvisations performed by the timbalero . In some cases ...
... ensembles and the Cuban independence move- ment , as well as the extent to which overt political satire added to their appeal , were not lost on colonial authorities . At the opening of a controversial work by Juan Francisco Valerio in ...
... ensemble include Oh , Mr. Pous and Habana - Barcelona - Habana , both from 1924 , as well as more musically based presentations such as La clave de oro and Pobre Papa Montero , the latter scored by Eliseo Grenet . 15 At the height of ...
Contenido
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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 |