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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... late 1920s . The first qualified valorization of Afrocuban arts by the intellectual elite and their acceptance as the valuable heritage of the entire nation date from the 1920s and 1930s ( e.g. , Carpentier 1976 , 91 ; Ortiz 1934 , 205 ) ...
... late 1930s , an Afrocubanophile frenzy per- vaded the country , affecting the attitudes of the white majority toward the noncommercial expression of Afrocubans themselves and inspiring Afro- cubanist works among their own ranks . This ...
... late nineteenth century . Carbonell points out that the nationalization of subaltern expression rep- resents a contradiction of sorts for traditional Marxist scholarship.3 Subaltern groups have good reason to interest themselves in the ...
... late nineteenth century through the 1930s , emphasiz- ing the contested place of blacks and mulattos within Cuban society . Atten- tion is given to segregation and exploitation of nonwhites , white supremacist discourse , and attitudes ...
... late 1920s . Chapter 5 discusses musics whose primary scope of influence was Cuba itself . I describe the social and political turmoil associated with the late twen- ties and thirties in more detail and the relationship of such events ...
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 |
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