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Music and Revolution

Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba

Robin D Moore author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:7th Apr '06

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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

"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"

ISBN: 9780520247116

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm

Weight: 544g

367 pages