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.