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Cuba Represent!: Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures
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by Sujatha Fernandes and Sujatha Fernandes
Sales Rank: 66245
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List Price: $21.95
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Cover Type: Paperback with 218 pages
Published by: Duke University Press; New Ed edition October 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822338912
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822338918
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 11.2 ounces
Product Review
“Cuba Represent! serves as a great introduction to critical contemporary art in Cuba and some of the ways this art is represented, used and consumed. The amount of data collected is impressive, and serves, to my mind, at least, to suggest any one way a western reader may have of looking at Cuba, art and rebellion will be too simplistic.”
--Siall Waterbright, M/C Reviews
Product Description
In Cuba something curious has happened over the past fifteen years. The government has allowed vocal criticism of its policies to be expressed within the arts. Filmmakers, rappers, and visual and performance artists have addressed sensitive issues including bureaucracy, racial and gender discrimination, emigration, and alienation. How can this vibrant body of work be reconciled with the standard representations of a repressive, authoritarian cultural apparatus? In Cuba Represent! Sujatha Fernandes—a scholar and musician who has performed in Cuba—answers that question.
Combining textual analyses of films, rap songs, and visual artworks; ethnographic material collected in Cuba; and insights into the nation’s history and political economy, Fernandes details the new forms of engagement with official institutions that have opened up as a result of changing relationships between state and society in the post-Soviet period. She demonstrates that in a moment of extreme hardship and uncertainty, the Cuban state has moved to a more permeable model of power. Artists and other members of the public are collaborating with government actors to partially incorporate critical cultural expressions into official discourse. The Cuban leadership has come to recognize the benefits of supporting artists: rappers offer a link to increasingly frustrated black youth in Cuba; visual artists are an important source of international prestige and hard currency; and films help unify Cubans through community discourse about the nation. Cuba Represent! reveals that part of the socialist government’s resilience stems from its ability to absorb oppositional ideas and values.
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