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Music and Revolution
Annotation A history of Cuban music during the Castro regime (1950s to the present.
Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950
In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new per
New World Maker
New World Maker reappraises Langston Hughes's political poetry, reading the writer's leftist works in the context of his practice of translation to reveal an important meditation on diaspora.
Antonio Benítez Rojo
The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.
Cuban Zarzuela
On September 29, 1927, Cuban soprano Rita Montaner walked onto the stage of Havana's Teatro Regina, her features obscured under a mask of blackened glycerin and her body clad in the tight pants, boots, and riding jacket of a coachman. Standing alongside a gilded carriage and a live horse, the blackfaced, cross-dressed actress sang the premiere of Eliseo Grenet's tango-congo, "Ay Mama Ines." The crowd went wild. Montaner's performance cemented "Ay Mama Ines" as one of the classics in the Cuban repertoire, but more importantly, the premiere heralded the birth of the Cuban zarzuela, a new genre of music theater that over the next fifteen years transformed popular entertainment on the island. Cu...
Mis Investigaciones... y Algo Más
CAMAGÜEYANOS ILUSTRES: Tula en dos tiempos; Flora Díaz Parrado; Abelardo Chapellí Marín; Mariano Aramburu y Machado; Luis Pichardo Loret de Mola; El Padre Gonfaus; La bala de ébano. UN BURGUES EXTRAORDINARIO: EMILIO BACARDÍ MOREAU. ENRIQUE VILLUENDAS Y DE LA TORRE. TRES FIGURA CUBANO-ESPAÑOLAS DE RELIEVE: Manuel Mur Oti; Ramón Rodríguez Correa; Teodoro Guerrero y Pallarés. Talentos cubanos y cubano-españoles; toda la información obtenida en Santiago de Cuba, entre los años 1964 y 1968 sobre el ilustre creador del ron Bacardí; la reproducción literal del Diario de Campaña de 1896 de Enrique Villuendas... y mucho más...
Nationalizing Blackness
The 1920s saw the birth of the tango, the "jazz craze," bohemian Paris, the Harlem Renaissance, and the primitivists. It was a time of fundamental change in the music of nearly all Western countries, including Cuba. Significant concessions to blue-collar and non-Western aesthetics began on a massive scale, making artistic expression more democratic.In Cuba, from about 1927 through the late thirties, an Afrocubanophile frenzy seized the public. Strong nationalist sentiments arose at this time, and the country embraced afrocubanismo as a means of expressing such feelings. Black street culture became associated with cubanidad (Cubanness) and a movement to merge once distinct systems of language...
Diccionario de mujeres notables en la música cubana
"El Diccionario de mujeres notables en la música cubana nos enorgullece y nos llena de satisfacción. Es un nuevo sol refulgente para nuestra música, por eso felicito a su autora a nombre de los músicos y la cultura de este país". (Harold Gramatges). "Todos nosotros, músicos, mujeres músicos y no, debemos mucho a la tenacidad, a la fe y a la gran preparación y madurez profesional de Alicia. Con su Diccionario de mujeres notables en la música cubana, ella nos ha entregado una parte de su vida y nos ha hecho un regalo especial: ha devuelto vida a las mujeres cubanas que han contribuido a la historia del mundo musical cubano, y, sobre todo, ha escrito un libro que se convertirá en centro de referencia para generaciones de músicos, intérpretes, compositores y profesores en el futuro. ¡Gracias de todo corazón, Alicia! ¡Gracias, Cuba, por este documento único y esencial!". (Patricia Adkins-Chiti).
Corpus Delecti
The most comprehensive volume on performance art from the Americas to have appeared in English, Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance. Drawing on live art from the 1960s to the present day, these fascinating essays explore the impact of Latin American politics, popular culture and syncretic religions on Latin performance. Including contributions by artists as well as scholars, Fusco's collection bridges the theory/practice divide and discusses a wide variety of genres. Among them are: * body art * carpa * vaudeville * staged political protest * tropicalist musical comedies * contemporary Venezuelan performance art * the Chicano Art movement * queer Latino performance The essays demonstrate how specific social and historical contexts have shaped Latin American performance. They also show how those factors have affected the choices artists make, and how their work draw upon and respond to their environment.
Marcel Proust and Spanish America
"Craig begins by attributing the early introduction of the Recherche to the intimate friendship between Proust and the pianist-composer Reynaldo Halm, who was born in Caracas. He then shows in chapter 1 how literary critics of the principal newspapers and literary magazines of such countries as Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile examined this French text, which we know today as one of the fundamental works of modernism. Shortly thereafter interest in the Recherche spread to Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay, and Colombia. Eventually it would be read in all parts of the New World. Over the years Spanish Americans have continued to write about the Recherche and have published several noteworthy books on it, which are included in the comprehensive bibliography which serves as an appendix."--BOOK JACKET.
