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2. 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.
3. Book Review: Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chandler,Susan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-05
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Affilia: Journal of Women & Social Work
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(2) : 213-215
- Notes:
- Reviews the book ","
4. Cuba's Changing Attitudes
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Randall,Margaret (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013 Mar
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Women's Review of Books
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(2) : 25-27
5. Cuba: Race Matters
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Binns,Leory A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Race, Gender & Class
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(3) : 333-345
- Notes:
- The Cuban journey on race relations denotes an adventure driven by ideology. A doctrine of equals and the need for consensus building towards national unity called for the reversal of disenfranchisement commonly practiced prior to the revolution. Public policy has affirmed a commitment to social integration of people of color yet the residue of bigotry still inflames the Cuban populace and stymies potential maturity among its people.
6. Cuba: The Next Revolution
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Diaz,Maria Elena (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2013
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(1) : 83-87
- Notes:
- A critical analysis of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS documentary film series Black in Latin America. Explores how racial polemics are explicitly entangled with the politics of Revolution in Cuba. Adapted from the source document.
7. Learning from Cubans (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hamilton,Carrie (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013 Jul
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Women's Review of Books
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(4) : 2-31
- Notes:
- A letter to the editor is presented in response to the book "Sexual Revolutions in Cuba," reviewed by Margaret Randall, which appeared in the March/April 2013 issue of the periodical.
8. Legislative Background on U.S.-Cuba Policy: Recent Action by Congress on Trade and Travel to Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Anon.,Anon (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2013
- Published:
- Washington, DC: Congressional Digest Corporation
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Congressional Digest
- Journal Title Details:
- 92(7)
- Notes:
- In Apr 2009, shortly after taking office, Pres Barack Obama signaled that he was open to a new dialogue with Cuba. At remarks delivered at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, the President said that the US seeks a new beginning with Cuba. Earlier that year, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had welcomed an offer for talks from Cuban President Raul Castro, who took over duties from his ailing brother Fidel Castro in 2006 and subsequently was elected president by the Cuban National Assembly in 2008. Castro reportedly said that he was willing "discuss anything" with the US Government. Here, the US-Cuba policy is discussed. Adapted from the source document.
9. Sexual revolutions in Cuba: passions, politics and memory (book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cabezas,Amalia L. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-06
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Gender Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(2) : 230-232
- Notes:
- Reviews the book "Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passions, Politics and Memory" by Carrie Hamilton.
10. Women and slavery in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cowling,Camillia (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-09
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Gender Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(3) : 346-347
- Notes:
- Reviews the book "Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba," by Sarah L. Franklin.