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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... society .... It is paradoxical that these marginal misfits in their milieu of bars and brothels should be so crucial in the development of new musical forms , especially since the genres they create are often destined later to become ...
... society , from which African - influenced culture was almost entirely excluded . Much as Hobsbawm describes the turn of the cen- tury as decisive in the formulation of modern thought in many Western Euro- pean nations ( 1987 , 4 ) , the ...
... society did not necessarily imply greater social equality for or empowerment of Afrocubans themselves . Outline and Theoretical Issues This study investigates changing conceptions of race and nation in Cuba in the early twentieth ...
... society . Given the centrality of this mainstreaming phenomenon to musical production in Bra- zil , the United States , and other countries , surprisingly little attention has been devoted to it by music historians . Cornel West ( 1988 ) ...
... 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 music traditions might best be viewed dialogically ...
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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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