| Description |
xii, 339 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
"Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Moveable feasts and floating fiestas -- Music, dance, and the birth of a culture : Anselmo Suarez y Romero and Cirilo Villaverde -- Fiesta time in old Havana : three pictures of a nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban ritual -- The fiesta in twentieth-century Cuban literature : from Alejo Carpentier to Daina Chaviano -- From the sugar kings to the king of sugar : baseball and revolution in Cuba in 1959 -- Holiday in Havana : fiesta and film in Cuba -- A drum is calling. |
| Subject |
Festivals -- Cuba.
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Cuba -- Social life and customs.
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Festivals in literature.
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Popular culture -- Cuba.
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| ISBN |
9780300167061 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0300167067 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000045508729 |
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NZ1 13736329 |
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