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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... racial issues . Perhaps the most central goal of the project as initially conceived was to determine how the music of a " despised " minority — African descendants in the Americas — has become so central to national identity in various ...
... racial discrimination and thought they might be more willing to talk openly about past experiences rather than those of the present . Government - sanctioned publications until recently maintained that racism did not exist in socialist ...
... racial past may tend to remember the pre - 1959 period as more repressive and discriminatory than those critical of current policies . Because I was often forced to rely on second - hand accounts of musical life , I found it especially ...
... racial mixing of Caucasians , Africans , and indigenous peoples over the centuries — but , more important , a cultural one involving the fusion of once distinct systems of lan- guage , religion , artistic forms , and other expression ...
... racial conflict . The extent of social stratification becomes evident by studying where and when particular sorts of musical performance were ( and are ) permitted or prohibited , and by whom . Bigotry and racial bias are manifested in ...
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 |