Music and Revolution

Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba

AvRobin D. Moore

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to the policies that have shaped artistic life. Robin D. Moore gives readers a chronological overview of the first decades after the Cuban Revolution, documenting the many ways performance has changed and emphasizing the close links between political and cultural activity. Offering a wealth of fascinating details about music and the milieu that engendered it, the author traces the development of dance styles, nueva trova, folkloric drumming, religious traditions, and other forms. He describes how the fall of the Soviet Union has affected Cuba in material, ideological, and musical terms and considers the effect of tense international relations on culture. Most importantly, Music and Revolution chronicles how the arts have become a point of negotiation between individuals, with their unique backgrounds and interests, and official organizations. It uses music to explore how Cubans have responded to the priorities of the revolution and have created spaces for their individual concerns. Copub: Center for Black Music Research

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-04-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Music of the African Diaspora
Antal sidor:367
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520247116

Utforska kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Robin D. Moore is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940 (1997).

Recensioner i media

"The Cuban reality reveals itself in many forms, and none perhaps as compelling as through its music. Through the rhythm, by way of the melody, and within the lyric, in the arrangement and performance, the music speaks to the Cuban condition, past and present. And few have conveyed knowledge of this relationship with the originality and thoroughness as Robin Moore. Music and Revolution offers insight and understanding of the Cuban revolution unobtainable by any other means. It will assume a place of prominence among those books considered obligatory reading." - Louis A. Perez, Jr., author of To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society"

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Music and the Arts in Socialist Cuba 1. Revelry and Revolution: The Paradox of the 1950s 2. Music and Social Change in the first years 3. Artistic Institutions, Initiatives, and Policies 4. Dance Music and the Politics of Fun 5. Transformations in Nueva Trova 6. Afro-Cuban Folklore in a Raceless Society 7. Ay, Dios Amparame: Sacred Music and Revolution 8. Music and Ideological Crisis Conclusion: Musical Politics into the New Millennium Appendix:Publications on Music from Revolutionary Cuba Notes Glossary Works Cited Index