Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xii, 339 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map; 25 cm.

Subject

1. Cuba > Social life and customs
2. Popular culture > Cuba
3. Festivals in literature
4. Festivals > Cuba

Contents

1. Moveable feasts and floating fiestas -- Music, dance, and the birth of a culture : Anselmo Suárez y Romero and Cirilo Villaverde -- Fiesta time in old Havana : three pictures of a nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban ritual -- The fiesta in twentieth-century Cuban literature : from Alejo Carpentier to Daína Chaviano -- From the sugar kings to the king of sugar : baseball and revolution in Cuba in 1959 -- Holiday in Havana : fiesta and film in Cuba -- A drum is calling.

Call number

1. JHE 10-468

Note

1. "Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. González Echevarría, Roberto.

Title

1. Cuban fiestas / Roberto González Echevarría.

Imprint

1. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2010016179

ISBN

1. 9780300167061 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0300167067 (cloth : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JHE 10-468