Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-312) and index.
Contents
Afrocubans and national culture -- Minstrelsy in Havana: music and dance of the Teatro Vernaculo -- Comparsas and carnival in the new republic: four decades of cultural controversy -- Echale salsita: sones and musical revolution -- Nationalizing blackness: the vogue of Afrocubanismo -- Rumba craze: Afrocuban arts as international popular culture -- Minorista vanguard: modernism and Afrocubanismo.
