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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... contributed to an unusually strong African cultural presence in Cuba in the early twentieth century . Significant ... contributing to the strong influence of African culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries was the ...
... contributed more to our present knowledge of them than Cubans themselves.5 A number of Afrocuban slave genres emerged or gained prominence dur- ing the mid - nineteenth century . These include tahona and yambu dances , the baile de maní ...
... contributing to their lower status . In general , musical labor straddled a cognitive boundary between white - collar and blue - collar , elite and common , in the minds of many ( Carpentier 1946 , 137 ) . What for upwardly aspiring ...
... contributed to its formation ( 1928b , 167 ) . He described the contradanza in a similar manner , emphasizing its stylistic roots in England and France and failing to mention that it had arrived via Haiti with black and mulatto ...
... contributed to a fuller under- standing of cultural " advance " in Cuba away from " degeneracy " and toward " civility . " Another central figure in early Afrocuban studies was Fernando Ortiz , whose attitudes toward Afrocuban cultural ...
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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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