Fiesta de diez pesos : music and gay identity in special period Cuba / by Moshe Morad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morad, Moshe, author.

Series:

SOAS musicology series.

SOAS musicology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects--Cuba.

Music.

Homosexuality and music--Cuba.

Homosexuality and music.

Gay culture--Cuba.

Gay culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 'Special Period' in Cuba was an extended era of economic depression starting in the early 1990s, characterised by the collapse of revolutionary values and social norms, and a way of life conducted by improvised solutions for survival, including hustling and sex-work. During this time there developed a thriving, though constantly harassed and destabilised, clandestine gay scene (known as the 'ambiente'). In the course of eight visits to the city between 1995 and 2007, the last dozen years of Fidel Castro's reign, Moshe Morad became absorbed in Havana's gay scene, where he created a wide soc

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Music Examples; Preface; Introduction; Part I Understanding ... (Setting the Scene); 1 Understanding Cuban Homosexualities: From "maricón" to "Gay"; 2 "Swing to Sunshine in Gay Havana": The Capital's Musicscape, Ethnoscape, and Homoscape; Part II Dance Music and the fiestas; 3 The fiestas de diez pesos Scene; 4 "Watch How the locas do the despelote!": Dance Music Genres and Their Queer Appropriation; 5 "Dancing Identity": Social and Musical Analysis of the fiestas Scene; Part III "El chow": Performance, Performativity, and Audience

6 Performance, Performativity, and Camp: A Brief Introduction to Part III7 Drag Shows: Glamour, Empowerment, and Resistance; 8 El Ballet Nacional, "The Most Obvious Discreet Gay Space in Havana"; 9 Changó versus Santa Barbara: Santería Ritual Performance as a Gay Space; 10 ¡Yo soy el bolero!: Queer Appropriation and Identification in the Kitchen; Conclusion, and Some Theoretical Framing; Epilogue ¡Ya empezó la fiesta! (The Party Has Already Begun!); Appendix In the Field: Methodology and Ethics; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4724-4819-7

1-315-58230-9

1-317-13542-3

1-4724-4818-9

9781315582306

OCLC:

897070667