African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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342 p, Examines how the low socioeconomic status of the black population in Cuba informs the representation of black characters in Cuban narrative fiction. From its very first example (Espejo de paciencia, 1608) until the most recent short fiction written after the 1959 Revolution, Cuban narrative fiction has played (and still plays) an important role in creating and maintaining the subaltern position of the black population in Cuba.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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377 p, This work is an ethnomusicological study of St. Lucian musical events, and their cultural implications. Includes a detailed description of four of the most common types of St. Lucian musical events: seances of La Rose and La Marguerite organizations; debot evenings (evenings which consist primarily of dancing the debot dances), full moon gatherings, and beach parties; kwadril evenings (evenings in which almost exclusively kwadril sets are performed); and wake celebrations.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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248 p, Rhetorically, the composite message of reggae music makes claims on attitudes and behaviors which are characterized as appeals to resist the dominant ideology of Jamaica
