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    Start Over Publication Year 1993 Subject Term Social life and customs Language Spanish

    1. Candombe: Afro-kultur e Uruguay

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Deugenio,Rafael (Author), Nunez,Fernando "Lobo" (Series Editor), Martirena,Washington (Series Editor), and Gomez,Jorge (Series Editor)
    Format:
    Video/DVD
    Language:
    Spanish
    Publication Date:
    1993
    Published:
    New York, NY: ArtMattan Productions
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title Details:
    VHS tape 1 videocassette (17 min.)
    Notes:
    Fernando Nunez, a black man, a musician, and a maker of drums, sees himself as the heir to "Candombe," an important social and cultural legacy from his slave forefathers in Uruguay. However, the official history and culture of Uruguay continues to marginalize expressions of black culture. Fernando Nunez and his friends from Barrio Sur, a back street quarter of Montevideo, fight to keep these important cultural roots alive in the consciousness of the Uruguayan people;

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