Beginning a New Cuban Dream

An Interview with Carlos Varela

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3979912
AutoresMaría Caridad Cumaná (autor correspondente), Karen Dubinsky
Ano2013
Volume34
Fascículo2
Páginas196-222
Data de publicação2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Music Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0163-0350 • E-ISSN: 1536-0199
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7560/lamr34203
OpenAlexW8093326
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas17

Carlos Varela is one of the best-known singer-songwriters to emerge from the Cuban nueva trova movement: heir to the musical traditions forged by Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés. Parochially, if accurately, known in North America as “Cuba's Bob Dylan,” he has produced eight CDs since he began recording in 1988 and has toured Europe, the United Kingdom, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America. In Cuba he is known as the voice of the generation that came of age during the Special Period of the 1990s, those raised with the promise and seeming collapse of the Cuban Revolution, for whom his songs have become generational anthems. In this interview, Varela discusses the meaning his music has for Cubans in the diaspora and on the island, the benefits and liabilities of creating music in today's Cuba, censorship, history, the current Cuban hip-hop scene, and the ongoing significance of music as a political language for his own and other generations of Cubans. He also shares some reflections about his own career and his songwriting process since the 1980s

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Diaspora · Dream · Humanities · Latin Americans · Literature · Musical · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies