Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance - Umi Vaughan

Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2012
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-11848-9 (ISBN)
95,20 inkl. MwSt
Umi A. Vaughan reveals a rarely discussed perspective on contemporary Cuban society during the 1990s, the peak decade of timba, and beyond, as the Cuban leadership transferred from Fidel Castro to his brother. Simultaneously, the book reveals popular dance music in the context of a young and astutely educated Cuban generation of fierce and creative performers.
Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance shows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. Umi A. Vaughan, an African American anthropologist, musician, dancer, and photographer ""plantao"" in Cuba---planted, living like a Cuban---reveals a rarely discussed perspective on contemporary Cuban society during the 1990s, the peak decade of timba, and beyond, as the Cuban leadership transferred from Fidel Castro to his brother. Simultaneously, the book reveals popular dance music in the context of a young and astutely educated Cuban generation of fierce and creative performers.

By looking at the experiences of black Cubans and exploring the notion of ""Afro Cuba,"" Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance explains timba's evolution and achieved significance in the larger context of Cuban culture. Vaughan discusses a maroon aesthetic extended beyond the colonial era to the context of contemporary society; describes the dance spaces of Cuba; and examines the performance of identity and desire through the character of ""the especulador."" This book will find an audience with musicians, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, interdisciplinary specialists in performance studies, cultural studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies, as well as laypeople who are interested in Atlantic/African and African American/Africana studies and/or Cuban culture.

Umi A. Vaughan is Assistant Professor in the New Humanities for Social Justice Department at California State University at Monterey Bay.

Zusatzinfo 28 illustrations
Verlagsort Ann Arbor
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 231 mm
Gewicht 456 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Pop / Rock
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-472-11848-X / 047211848X
ISBN-13 978-0-472-11848-9 / 9780472118489
Zustand Neuware
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