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Cuban Counterpoint, Tobacco and Sugar
First published in 1940 and long out of print, Fernando Ortiz’s classic work, Cuban Counterpoint is recognized as one of the most important books of Latin American and Caribbean intellectual history. Ortiz’s examination of the impact of sugar and tobacco on Cuban society is unquestionably the cornerstone of Cuban studies and a key source for work on Caribbean culture generally. Ortiz presents his understanding of Cuban history in two complementary sections written in contrasting styles: a playful allegorical tale narrated as a counterpoint between tobacco and sugar and a historical analysis of their development as the central agricultural products of the Cuban economy. His work shows how...
Fernando Ortiz on Music
Part I. Early writings -- The future of Cuban witchcraft -- Afro-Cuban cabildos -- Part II. Instrument essays -- Makuta -- Ararâa drums -- The Chekerâe, âAgbe, or Aggèuâe -- The conga -- Part III. Ethnographic essays -- Kongo traditions -- The religious music of black Cuban Yorubas -- The "tragedy" of the äNâaänigos -- Satirical and commercial song
Fernando Ortiz
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Cuban Counterpoints
While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and celebrate his contribution to scholarship in Cuban history, the social sciences--notably anthropology--and law, religion and national identity, literature, and music. Presenting Ortiz's seminal thinking, including his profoundly influential concept of 'transculturation', Cuban Counterpoints explores the bold new perspectives that he brought to bear on Cuban society. Much of his most challenging and provocative thinking--which embraced simultaneity, conflict, inherent contradiction and hybridity--has remarkable relevance for current debates about Latin America's complex and evolving societies.
Italia y Cuba
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Cuban Counterpoint
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La decadencia cubana
La decadencia cubana contiene los ensayos de Fernando Ortiz La crisis política cubana; sus causas y remedios y La decadencia cubana, escritos en 1919 y 1924. En ellos el autor reflexiona sobre el periodo de la historia cubana conocido como el de las "Vacas gordas", en que el aumento del comercio y la subida de los precios del azúcar auguraban una Cuba próspera y optimista. Ortiz es incisivo en extremo y meticuloso en el análisis y ordenación de estadísticas que demuestran la fragilidad de los cimientos de la prosperidad cubana, y la inevitable crisis de la década de los años veinte. El primero de los ensayos disecciona la democracia republicana, expone sin tapujos los que en su opini...
