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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... prominent Communist Party figures ( Ralson 1991 , 75 ; Casal 1989 ) , have their roots in the writings of authors such as Fernando Ortiz , Alejo Carpentier , Juan Marinello , and Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring from the late 1920s . The ...
... prominence of African - influenced music and dance in Cuba owed much to these events . The arts of socially marginalized blacks , for centuries ignored or dismissed by Cuba's middle classes , took on new significance as symbols of ...
... prominent in the 1923 Victor catalogue were fading from popular memory , having been largely sup- planted by sones ... prominence , syncretic Afrohispanic artistry has a venerable his- tory dating back at least to the seventeenth century ...
... prominence of racial terms in everyday discourse today . It provides an overview of major political and his- torical events from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s , emphasiz- ing the contested place of blacks and mulattos ...
... prominent Cuban artists such as Justo Azpiazu , Moises Simons , Rita Montaner , Carmita Ortiz , and Julio Richards performed stylized rumba before audiences in Europe , the United States , Latin America , and elsewhere . The music they ...
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 |