Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920–1940 by Robin D. Moore

Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920–1940

Robin D. Moore

320 pages first pub 1997 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
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"Nationalizing Blackness" uses the music of the 1920s and 1930s to examine Cuban society as it begins to embrace Afrocuban culture. Moore examines the public debate over "degenerate Africanisms" associated with "comparas" or carnival bands; simila...

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