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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... twentieth century eventually appropriated particular genres of Afrocuban music for the nation , yet they were hard pressed to do so , given the long - standing bias against them . African - derived culture in an abstract sense may have ...
... twentieth century , the nationalization of once marginal music typically resulted in its stylistic transformation . This tendency underscores the bounded nature of much commercial music making and helps us to recognize that taken ...
... twentieth - century Cuba , but their work remains largely fo- cused on political , economic , and social issues . The same can be said of most historians living in Cuba , where this tendency is , if anything , more pronounced . Part of ...
... twentieth century , belief in the biologically based superiority of the Caucasian race was widely accepted in most Western countries and justified actions taken against other groups . However , such ideas have been discredited in recent ...
... twentieth century . ( Before the Wars of Independence , carnival had been almost exclusively for white par- ticipants . ) In a theoretical sense , chapter 3 addresses the relevance of Bakhtinian models in evaluating the meaning of ...
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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