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Authors: Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-11-16 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from C
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Authors: Kristina Wirtz
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santería saints
Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Latin America
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For most of the 20th century, Latin American literature and art have contested political and cultural projects of homogenization of a manifestly diverse contine
Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic
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Authors: Melina Pappademos
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-19 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as t
Cuban Music Counterpoints
Language: en
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"This book tells readers: tracing the classical music networks that Cuban composers cultivated between 1940 and 1991 through examining compositions, ensembles,