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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... traditional " musical analysis in certain re- spects . Although music is discussed in order to define genres and to describe processes of stylistic change , it is not my sole focus of study . Few transcribed examples of music have been ...
... traditional forms it continued to be condemned as backward , lewd , or primitive , as it is sometimes even today . An appreciation for the inconsistencies between 1920s afrocubanismo as an ideology embracing black expression ...
... traditional rumba and santerta ritual . Cuba's growing black middle classes also contributed to the nationalization of Afrocuban culture . Influential figures such as Ignacio Villa , Eusebia Cosme , and Rita Montaner mediated in an ...
... traditional musics of the same name and pe- riod . Their commercial variants represent a fusion of working - class styles with those of the North American and European middle classes . Afrocuban popu- lar music of the 1920s and 1930s ...
... traditional historians tend to disregard cultural his- tory as a primary or even secondary focus of study . Although ever more excep- tions can be cited ( e.g. , Thompson 1967 ; Spence 1984 ; Bynum 1987 ) , popular culture remains an ...
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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