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2. <From Escambray to the Congo: In the Whirlwind of the Cuban Revolution: Iinterview with Victor Dreke>. (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Smith,Baxter (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Fall-Winter, 2002
- Published:
- Oakland, CA: Black World Foundation
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Black Scholar
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(3-4) : 48-50
- Notes:
- "This book was written by a leading member of the Castro revolution in Cuba. Dreke was the second in command in Africa (behind the legendary Che Guevera) for the export of a similar revolution to that continent." (Publisher)
3. Beginning a new Cuban dream: An interview with Carlos Varela
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cumaná,María Caridad, (Author) and Dubinsky,Karen, (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Fall; Fall-winter, 2013
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latin American music review/Revista de música latinoamericana
- Journal Title Details:
- 34(2) : 196-222
- Notes:
- Carlos Varela is one of the best-known singer-songwriters to emerge from the Cuban nueva trova movement: heir to the musical traditions forged by Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés. Parochially, if accurately, known in North America as “Cuba’s Bob Dylan,” he has produced eight CDs since he began recording in 1988 and has toured Europe, the United Kingdom, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America. In Cuba he is known as the voice of the generation that came of age during the Special Period of the 1990s, those raised with the promise and seeming collapse of the Cuban Revolution, for whom his songs have become generational anthems. In this interview, Varela discusses the meaning his music has for Cubans in the diaspora and on the island, the benefits and liabilities of creating music in today’s Cuba, censorship, history, the current Cuban hip-hop scene, and the ongoing significance of music as a political language for his own and other generations of Cubans. He also shares some reflections about his own career and his song-writing process since the 1980s., unedited non–English abstract received by RILM] Carlos Varela es uno de los cantautores más famosos surgido del movimiento cubano de la nueva trova, y heredero de la tradición musical de Silvio Rodríguez y Pablo Milanés. Celebrado como el “Bob Dylan cubano”, ha producido ocho discos desde que comenzó a grabar en 1988, y ha dado giras por Europa, el Reino Unido, América Latina, el Caribe y América del Norte. En Cuba, Varela es conocido como la voz de la generación que se formó durante el Período Especial de los años noventa, los que crecieron con la promesa y, a la vez, la desilusión de la Revolución Cubana, y para quienes sus canciones se convirtieron en himnos generacionales. En esta entrevista, habla sobre el significado de sus canciones para los cubanos dentro y fuera de la isla, sobre los beneficios y las dificultades de la creación musical en la Cuba de hoy, sobre la censura, la historia, el escenario actual del hip-hop cubano, y el constante significado de la música como lenguaje político, tanto para su generación como para las otras generaciones de cubanos. También, Varela comparte algunas reflexiones sobre su carrera y el proceso de creación de sus canciones desde los años ochenta.
4. On His Seventieth Birthday Alejo Carpentier Answers Seven Questions
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Carpentier,Alejo (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- March-June, 1975
- Published:
- Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Quarterly
- Journal Title Details:
- 21(1-2) : 88-90
5. Sexual revolutions in Cuba : passion, politics, and memory
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hamilton, Carrie (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012-01-01
- Published:
- Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 298 p., Showing how revolutionary and prerevolutionary values coexist in a potent and sometimes contradictory mix, Hamilton addresses changing patterns in heterosexual relations, competing views of masculinity and femininity, same-sex relationships and homophobia, AIDS, sexual violence, interracial relationships, and sexual tourism. Hamilton's examination of sexual experiences across generations and social groups demonstrates that sexual politics have been integral to the construction of a new revolutionary Cuban society.
6. Sexual revolutions in Cuba : passion, politics, and memory
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hamilton,Carrie (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012-01-01
- Published:
- Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 298 p., Showing how revolutionary and prerevolutionary values coexist in a potent and sometimes contradictory mix, Hamilton addresses changing patterns in heterosexual relations, competing views of masculinity and femininity, same-sex relationships and homophobia, AIDS, sexual violence, interracial relationships, and sexual tourism. Hamilton's examination of sexual experiences across generations and social groups demonstrates that sexual politics have been integral to the construction of a new revolutionary Cuban society.
7. Women in Cuba : the making of a revolution within the revolution
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Espín Guillois,Vilma (Author), Santos Tamayo,Asela de los (Author), and Ferrer,Yolanda (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012-01-01
- Published:
- New York: Pathfinder
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 364 p., A collection of four interviews by different journalists with Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos and Yolanda Ferrer from 1975-2008. Founded by Fidel Castro and directed by Vilma Espín, the Federation of Cuban Women sought to mobilize women following the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Called the "revolution within the revolution," the Cuban women's movement sent women into new regions of the country to teach the illiterate and nurse the ill.
8. entrevista: Norma Guillard Limonta con Carrie Hamilton, La Habana, abril 2013 / interview: Norma Guillard Limonta with Carrie Hamilton, Havana, April 2013
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hamilton,Carrie (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-02
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Feminist Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 106(1) : 104-121
- Notes:
- -, Interviews social psychologist and feminist Norma Guillard. She discusses her political, socio-cultural activism and academic research on Black lesbians in Cuba. Guillard cites feminists Margaret Randall, Alice Walker and Angela Davis as women who influenced her. Describes an important Cuban movement involving Afro-Cuban militants.