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Zusatztext "Valuable." Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext "The Cuban reality reveals itself in many forms, perhaps none as compelling as its music. Through the rhythm, by way of the melody, within the lyric, and in the arrangement and performance, the music speaks to the Cuban condition, past and present. Few have conveyed knowledge of this relationship with the originality and thoroughness that Robin Moore demonstrates in this book. 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. Pérez Jr., author of To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society Zusammenfassung Provides an 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. Tracing the development of dance styles, nueva trova, folkloric drumming, and other forms, this book describes how the arts have become a point of negotiation between individuals. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Ampárame: 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 ...
