Trumpets in the Mountains
Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19935506 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurie Aleen Frederik, Laurie Frederik (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 360 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Trumpets in the Mountains (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780822395355 |
| OpenAlex | W2346996216 |
| ISBN | 9780822395355 |
| Open Library | OL29662206M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Trumpets in the Mountains is a compelling ethnography about Cuban culture, artistic performance, and the shift in national identity after 1990, when the loss of Soviet subsidies plunged Cuba into a severe economic crisis. The state's response involved opening the economy to foreign capital and tourism, and promoting previously deprecated cultural practices as quintessentially Cuban. Such contradictions of Cuba's revolutionary ideals elicited an official preoccupation with how twenty-first-century cubanía, or Cubanness, was to be understood by its citizens and creatively interpreted by its artists. The rural campesino was re-envisioned as a key symbol of the future; the embodiment of socialist humility, cultural pureness, and educated refinement; potentially the Hombre Novísimo (even newer man) to replace the Hombre Nuevo (new man) of Cuban communist philosophy.Campesinos inhabit some of the island's most isolated areas, including the mountainous regions in central and eastern Cuba where Laurie A. Frederik conducted research among rural communities and professional theater groups. Analyzing the ongoing dialogue of cultural officials, urban and rural artists, and campesinos, Frederik provides an on-the-ground account of how visions of the nation are developed, manipulated, dramatized, and maintained in public consciousness. She shows that cubanía is defined, and redefined, in the interactive movement between intellectual, political, and everyday worlds
Aesthetics · Art · Communism · Ethnography · Geography · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Anthropology · Cuban History and Society · Diversity and Impact of Dance · History · Law · Outdoor and Experiential Education · Cuba · Cuban National characteristics · National characteristics · Political aspects · Rural conditions · Social conditions · Theater · Traveling theater
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |