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Cubans, an Epic Journey
This book is a collection of more than thirty essays by renowned scholars, historians, journalists, and media professionals that portray the experience of Cubans exiled in the United States and other countries in the last sixty years.
Voices from Mariel
Between April and September 1980, more than 125,000 Cuban refugees fled their homeland, seeking freedom from Fidel Castro's dictatorship. They departed in boats from the port of Mariel and braved the dangerous 90-mile journey across the Straits of Florida. Told in the words of the immigrants themselves, the stories in Voices from Mariel offer an up-close view of this international crisis, the largest oversea mass migration in Latin American history. Former refugees describe what it was like to gather among thousands of dissidents on the grounds of the Peruvian embassy in Cuba, where the movement first began. They were abused by the masses who protested them as they made their way to the Mari...
Marketing without Advertising
In 1993, in order to stop an economic freefall on the island of Cuba, Fidel Castro’s government reluctantly instituted a series of reforms to compensate for the demise of foreign aid from Moscow. These policies ushered in a broad spectrum of national and international consumer products and services previously unknown to islanders. In a few short years, Cubans were seeing foreign brands among consumer durables and a broad array of logos brought in by tourists. Today, nearly two decades into these limited market reforms, no systematic research has explored consumer brand awareness among 11 millions Cubans living just 90 miles from the United States. The paucity of academic research stems fro...
Diversión
In an era of warming relations between the US and Cuba, this book updates the conversation about Cuban America by revealing how this community has changed over the past 25 years. Albert Sergio Laguna investigates the generational shifts and tensions in a Cuban America where the majority is now made up of those who have arrived since the 1990s and those born in the US. To probe these changes, Laguna examines the aesthetic and social logics of a wide range of popular culture forms originating in Miami and Cuba from the 1970s through the 2010s. They include the stand-up comedy of performers like Alvarez Guedes, festivals, a media distribution network in Cuba called el paquete, morning radio sho...
Hispanic Almanac
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Digital Dilemmas
The contentious debate in Cuba over Internet use and digital media primarily focuses on three issuesùmaximizing the potential for economic and cultural development, establishing stronger ties to the outside world, and changing the hierarchy of control. A growing number of users decry censorship and insist on personal freedom in accessing the web, while the centrally managed system benefits the government in circumventing U.S. sanctions against the country and in controlling what limited capacity exists. Digital Dilemmas views Cuba from the Soviet Union's demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. Drawing on ex...
Identidades en proceso. Cinco compositores cubanos de la diáspora (1990-2013)
Las composiciones de Ileana Pérez Velázquez (1964), Louis Aguirre (1968), Eduardo Morales-Caso (1969), Keyla Orozco (1969) y Ailem Carvajal (1972) representan algunos de los caminos más relevantes que ha seguido la música académica cubana en el último cambio de siglo. Aunque formados en La Habana, su producción musical de madurez se ha generado fuera de la Isla en ciudades como Nueva York, Madrid, Ámsterdam, Parma y Aalborg. El claro impacto que ejerce la emigración en la reconstrucción de identidades y subjetividades es posible de apreciar en las obras de estos compositores a través de disímiles procesos de confrontación/conciliación con otras estéticas y realidades socioculturales. En respuesta a tan complejo escenario, este libro ofrece al lector un enfoque musicológico plural y abierto donde «los aspectos más formalistas del análisis musical se abren para ofrecer miradas profundas sobre los procesos socio-antropológicos vinculados con la emigración, que comprenden tanto lo musical y artístico, como lo social, histórico y político» (Acta del Jurado del Premio de Musicología de Casa de las Américas 2016).
