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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... served only to hide their continuing social , educational , and economic marginalization ? I discuss these issues briefly , but not to the extent I would have liked . Reading newspapers and magazines , listening to '78 records , and ...
... serves as an important means of analyz- ing the ideological position of their authors toward Afrocuban culture . I sub- ject them to a fairly close reading , and thus the authors ' original words may provide additional insights that ...
... served as a means of real and symbolic empowerment for those who would otherwise have no voice . They have also provoked violence and repression by those op- posing such empowerment.2 The fact that for sixty years African - derived ...
... serves as a mark of distinction and can aid in attempts to transcend one's own social class ( Bourdieu 1984 ) . The overwhelm- ing popularity of working - class musics among the middle classes and the elite , however , is more difficult ...
... serves to perpetuate complex power relations in the society of which it is a part . The musical landscape in modern urban societies , rife with ethnic conflict and class stratification , often manifests such division in sound . National ...
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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 |