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Author Frederik, Laurie Aleen

Title Trumpets in the mountains : theater and the politics of national culture in Cuba / Laurie A .Frederik
Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps
Series Online access with subscription: Duke University Press
Contents Prologue : the red blood of Cuban identity -- Introduction : more than just scenery -- Revolution and revolutionary performance, or what happens when El Negrito, La Mulata, and El Gallego meet El Hombre Nuevo -- Artists in the special period, option zero, and the hombre novísimo, or the heroic rescue of Liborio and Elpidio Valdes -- Creative process and playmaking in Cumanayagua, or waiting for Atilio on the side of a country road -- The inundation of Siguanea and Cuba, or the near drowning and rescue of Cuba's Godot -- Cultural crusades and the unsung artists of Guantánamo, or how Don Quixote saves Humble Harriero from the devil -- Storytellers and the story-told : voices from the zones of silence, or who wins the wager if the cockfight ends in a draw -- Dramatic irony and Janus-faced nationalism, or the triumphant stage return of El Negrito and Mr. Smith
Summary An ethnography exploring how the meaning of cubanía, or Cubanness, is generated in interactions between the state, ordinary Cubans, intellectuals, and artists and other cultural workers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT CUBA gnd
Subject Theater -- Political aspects -- Cuba
Traveling theater -- Cuba
National characteristics, Cuban.
Cubans.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Cubans
National characteristics, Cuban
Rural conditions
Theater -- Political aspects
Traveling theater
Kulturpolitik
Kubanische Revolution
Volkstheater
Musikleben
Ländlicher Raum
Arbeitertheater
SUBJECT Cuba -- Rural conditions
Subject Cuba
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011053295
ISBN 9780822395355
0822395355
1283591669
9781283591669
9786613904119
6613904112