Analyzes the portrayal of blacks in the magazine Vistazo, one of the most popular publications of Ecuador, since the year of its creation in 1957 until the year 1991. Mainstains that the construction of the Ecuadorian national identity deprives humanity in representation of African-Ecuadorians in favor of appreciation and exaltation of Euro-Ecuadorians and, secondarily, the white-mestizo
Against the backdrop of a tremendous surge in ethnic identity politics and social movement organizing over the last two decades in Ecuador, two complementary musical trends are explored that have emerged in reference to the country's Afro-Ecuadorian population. The first showcases the traditional music and dance of the marimba as a symbol of Afro-Ecuadorian identity. The second features numerous popular music fusions of the marimba repertoire with genres including rock, salsa, reggaetón, and more, with broad appeal to audiences throughout the country and beyond.
Caracas: Instituto de Antropología e Historia Facultad de Humanidades y Educación Universidad Central de Venezuela
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
302 p, Contents: El negro brasileño. Arthur Ramos, semblanza hecha por un discipulo. La obra de Arthur Ramos. Arthur Ramos: el politico.--El negro paraguayo: bibliografia afroparaguaya. Apuntes críticos sobre algunas fuentes afroparaguayas. Antologia del negro paraguayo. Contribución al estudio de los negros paraguayos de campamento Loma.--El negro uruguayo: bibliografia afrouruuaya. Apuntes criticos sobre algunas fuentes afrouruguayas. La obra afrouruguaya de I. Pereda Valdés (Resumen). El candombe, una danza dramática del folklore afrouruguayo.
