The Rhythms of the Cuban Revolution. A Review of Robin D. Moore's <em>Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba</em> (Berkeley and LA: U of California P, 2006)

Authors

  • Sujatha Fernandes Queens College—City University of New York

Keywords:

Cuban Revolution, music

Abstract

Given the circulation of global ideological discourses about the end of socialism, and the turn of many former socialist states towards the market, why write about Cuban socialism today? This is the question that Robin Moore poses in one of the last chapters of his book Music and Revolution, an overview of the development of musical forms under the Cuban socialist system.

Author Biography

Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College—City University of New York

Sujatha Fernandes es profesora asistente en el Departamento de Sociología de Queens College, City University of New York. Es autora de Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Duke University Press, 2006). Ha publicado varios artículos sobre el cine, la musica hip hop, la cultural popular y los movimientos sociales en Cuba y Venezuela. Actualmente trabaja en un manuscrito titulado, In the Spirit of Negro Primero: Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela.

Published

2007-08-01

How to Cite

Fernandes, S. (2007). The Rhythms of the Cuban Revolution. A Review of Robin D. Moore’s <em>Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba</em> (Berkeley and LA: U of California P, 2006). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 5(1), 285–290. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/389

Issue

Section

Reviews: Race, Culture and Identity