Performing Afro-Cuba

Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History

Kristina Wirtz

Performing Afro-Cuba
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Kristina Wirtz

352 pages | 56 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2014
Cloth $95.00 ISBN: 9780226118864 Will Publish June 2014
Paper $30.00 ISBN: 9780226119052 Will Publish June 2014
Contents

Agradecimientos

1 Semiotics of Race and History
2 Image-inations of Blackness
3 Bodies in Motion: Routes of Blackness in the Carnivalesque
4 Voices: Chronotopic Registers and Historical Imagination in Cuban Folk Religious Rituals
5 Pride: Singing Black History in the Carabalí Cabildos
6 Performance: State-Sponsored Folklore Spectacles of Blackness as History
7 Brutology: The Enregisterment of Bozal, from “Blackface” Theater to Spirit Possession

Notes
References Cited
Index

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