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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Key to Institutions and Abbreviations -- Foreword Jorge Fornet -- Preamble Cuba as an Antidote to Neoliberalism -- One Conceptualising Cultural Policy in Cuba -- Cultural Policy under Capitalism -- The Cuban Revolution Dawns -- The Centrality of Culture to the Revolution -- A Uniquely Cuban Approach to Culture -- A Subject for the Object -- The Cultural Gains of the Revolution -- Charting the Trajectory of Cuban Cultural Policy -- A Focus on the Plastic Arts |
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A Note on Style by Way of Conclusion -- Two Revolutionary Rebuilding -- Nuestro Tiempo Cultural Society -- Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industries (ICAIC) -- Casa de las Américas -- National Council of Culture (CNC) -- The Ministry of Culture (MINCULT) -- National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) -- Museums and Galleries -- Casas de Cultura -- Educational Institutions -- An Institutional Overview -- Three The Emancipatory Potential of Culture under Socialism -- Art as a Form of Social Production -- Culture as a Tool of Class Struggle |
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Culture as a Means of Enhancing Spiritual Growth -- The Revolution and Aesthetics -- Freedom of Expression -- Remarks in Conclusion -- Four The Early Cultural Climate -- Cultural Discussions as the Revolution Dawns -- Words from the Intellectuals (October-November 1960) -- PM and Its Aftermath (May-June 1961) -- Words to the Intellectuals (30 June 1961) -- The First National Congress of Writers and Artists (18-22 August 1961) -- Remarks in Conclusion -- Five Cultural Policy 1961-7 -- Formulation of Cultural Policy by the CNC 1961-4 -- The Persistent Polemic around Socialist Aesthetics |
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Socialism and Man in Cuba, March 1965 -- Crisis Talks between Armando Hart and Intellectuals, October 1965 -- Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP), November 1965 -- The Centrality of 1966 to Cultural Discussions -- Remarks in Conclusion -- Six The Cultural Congress of Havana (5-12 January 1968) -- Commission I: Culture and National Independence -- Commission II: The Integral Formation of Man -- Commission III: The Responsibility of Intellectuals with Respect to the Problems of the Underdeveloped World -- Commission IV: Culture and the Mass Media |
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Commission V: Problems of Artistic Creation and of Scientific and Technical Work -- Closing the Congress -- Internal Repercussions -- Remarks in Conclusion -- Seven Cultural Policy of the Revolution 1968-76 -- The Padilla Case (1968-1971) -- The First National Congress of Education -- and Culture (23-30 April 1971) -- The 'Five Grey Years' (1971-6) -- The Grey Areas within the Grey Years -- Emerging from the Grey Years -- First Congress of the Cuban Communist Party (17-22 December 1975) -- Ministry of Culture (1976-) -- Remarks in Conclusion -- Eight Towards a Marxist-Humanist Cultural Policy |
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Based on a four-year research project, which included five months in Havana, this book documents the approaches to culture that evolved out of the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Deploying micro and macro perspectives, it introduces all the main protagonists to the debate and follows the polemical twists and turns that ensued in the volatile atmosphere of the 1960s and 1970s. The picture that emerges is of a struggle for cultural dominance between Soviet-derived approaches and a uniquely Cuban response to culture under socialism, based on the principles of Marxist humanism. Accordingly, this book aims to isolate the main tenets of Cuban cultural policy as they crystallized through an extensive process of trial and error. Primacy is given to emancipatory understandings of culture, and ample space is dedicated to discussions that remain hugely pertinent to those working in the cultural field, such as the relationship between art and ideology, engagement and autonomy, form and content. --Provided by publisher. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Art.
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Art. |
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Latin America -- History.
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Latin America. |
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History. |
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History.
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Cultural policy of the Cuban Revolution |
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Print version: 1629631043 9781629631042 (OCoLC)892432408 |
| ISBN |
9781629631301 (electronic book) |
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1629631302 (electronic book) |
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1629631043 |
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9781629631042 |
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