The People and Culture of Cuba
The People and Culture of Cuba

Author: Melissa Raé Shofner

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1508163111

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Who are the people of Cuba? Readers will probe this question through this lively book about the cultural traditions, festivals, music, art, dance, and food of this Caribbean island nation. Analyzing how the country's history has shaped the cultural identity of its people, this comprehensive text sheds light on the unique contributions Cubans have made. Readers also learn that it is the largest island and most populated country in the Caribbean. Each spread features stunning photographs, which make the information pop. This engaging take on curricular social studies concepts is sure to capture readers' attention.

Culture and Customs of Cuba
Culture and Customs of Cuba

Author: William Luis

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Cuba continues to loom large in U.S. consciousness and politics. Culture and Customs of Cuba is a much-needed resource that gives students and other readers an in-depth view of our important island neighbor. Luis, of Cuban descent, provides detailed, clear insight into the society, religions, customs, media, cinema, literature, performing arts, and art in the context of three interrelated periods in Cuban history: Colonial, the Republic, and Castros Revolution and beyond. The contributions of Cubans in exile are considered an inherent part of Cuban culture and Luis includes them as well.

On Becoming Cuban
On Becoming Cuban

Author: Louis A. Pérez Jr.

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 1469601419

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With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959. Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources--from archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures--Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans' sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, Perez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.

Cuba
Cuba

Author: Stephen Williams

Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Period and contemporary photos highlight island's co plex history of conquests, revolts, slavery and numerous dictatorships, etc.

Cuba
Cuba

Author: April Fast

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780778793267

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The Spanish had an enormous impact on Cuba's history and culture introducing the Spanish language to the island and Roman Catholicism. Other cultures have also contributed particularly in the area of the arts and food. Cuba the culture features the traditions and celebrations of the country's many different cultural influences.

The People and Culture of Cuba
The People and Culture of Cuba

Author: Melissa Raé Shofner

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1538326442

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Who are the people of Cuba? Readers will probe this question through this lively book about the cultural traditions, festivals, music, art, dance, and food of this Caribbean island nation. Analyzing how the country's history has shaped the cultural identity of its people, this comprehensive text sheds light on the unique contributions Cubans have made. Readers also learn that it is the largest island and most populated country in the Caribbean. Each spread features stunning photographs, which make the information pop. This engaging take on curricular social studies concepts is sure to capture readers' attention.

Cuba
Cuba

Author: Emily Hatchwell

Publisher: Latin America in Focus

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13:

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A comprehensive guide to understanding Cuba's social, political and economic situation

Cuba
Cuba

Author: Wyatt MacGaffey

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1974-07-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0837173191

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Culture and the Cuban Revolution
Culture and the Cuban Revolution

Author: John M. Kirk

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780813020785

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This unusual collaboration between a Cuban novelist and a Canadian professor offers uncensored and frank interviews with prominent figures of contemporary Cuban cultural life, from a Grammy-winning jazz artist to world-class filmmakers and actors, writers, ballet dancers, and dramatists. In recent years the small island, with a population of just 11 million, has experienced an astonishing cultural renaissance. The immense popularity of the movies Buena Vista Social Club and Strawberry and Chocolate, the successful international tours of the National Ballet of Cuba, and a host of literary prizes in Spain and Latin America attest to this phenomenon. The thirteen people interviewed played a leading role in cultural life during the years of the revolutionary process and today are considered official Cuban figures - Silvio Rodriguez, Anton Arrufat, Alicia Alonso, Abelardo Estorino, Chucho Valdes, Pablo Armando Fernandez, Leo Brouwer, Nancy Morejon, Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Roberto Fabelo, Frank Fernandez, Fernando Perez, and Jorge Perugorria. They discuss a range of topics - their own work and limits on it, the challenge of producing art in a poor country, and threats of censorship. A