Rhythms of race : Cuban musicians and the making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960 /
"Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha chá. In her history of music and race in midcentury Amer...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, NC :
University of North Carolina Press
2015.
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| Edition: | 1st edition. |
| Series: | Envisioning Cuba.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469620855_abreu |
Table of Contents:
- Race and the roots/routes traced by Latin musicians
- Cuban musicians and New York City's Cuban social clubs
- A place for nation in the diaspora
- La Prensa's Musical Popularity Contests and fundraising festivals
- Real and imagined representations of (Afro- )Cubanness and Latinness
- Cubans in Miami's Panamerican Paradise.