Folklore of the Black Struggle in Latin America

Bibliographic Data

ID4837368
AuthorsPaulo De Carvalho-Neto (corresponding author)
Year1978
Volume5
Issue2
Pages53-88
Publication date1978-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x7800500205
OpenAlexW2171572827
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited1

This is a translated and edited version of a section of the author's El folklore de las luchas sociales (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno, 1973) - a book which received mention in the 1973 Casa de las Americas awards and has been banned in several Latin American dictatorships. In his introduction, the author differentiates a Marxist approach to folklore studies from the usual bourgeois approaches. In contrast with those who view folklore as either evidence of an idealized past where the upper class was accepted as legitimate rulers by the folk or with those who view the "people's culture" as ipso facto revolutionary, Carvalho-Neto shows that folklore mirrors the class struggle and is itself an instrument of class hegemony over all culture. Folklore also reflects defense, resistance and struggle, for as long as an oppressed group is not liberated, its folklore of resistance represents primarily an adaptation to the violence of domination

Art · Bourgeoisie · Democracy · Dictatorship · Folklore · Hegemony · Latin Americans · Literature · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Youth Culture and Social Dynamics

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