Cuban fiestas /

Gonzàlez Echevarrìa, Roberto.

Cuban fiestas / Roberto Gonzàlez Echevarrìa. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010. - xii, 339 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 25 cm.

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Moveable feasts and floating fiestas -- Music, dance, and the birth of a culture : Anselmo Suàrez 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 Daìna 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.

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Festivals--Cuba.
Festivals in literature.
Popular culture--Cuba.


Cuba--Social life and customs.

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