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March 8, 2023

Terrorism The Cuban Connection

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Free Download Roger W. Fontaine, "Terrorism: The Cuban Connection "
English | ISBN: 0367696002 | 2021 | 204 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
First published in 1988, Terrorism: The Cuban Connection examines Cuba’s involvement in terrorism.

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February 16, 2023

On Becoming Cuban Identity, Nationality, and Culture

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On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture By Louis A. Pérez Jr.; Louis A. P?rez
2008 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 0807858994 | PDF | 7 MB
With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans’ identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959.Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources–from archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures–Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans’ sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, Perez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans’ identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959.

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January 25, 2023

Mexican and Cuban From Cancun to Havana Discover Delicious Latin Recipes

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Mexican and Cuban: From Cancun to Havana Discover Delicious Latin Recipes by BookSumo Press
English | July 6, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B612WYXG | 105 pages | PDF | 1.58 Mb
Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply. In this book we focus on Mexican & Cuban. Mexican & Cuban Cookbook is a complete set of simple but very unique Mexican & Cuban recipes. You will find that even though the recipes are simple, the tastes are quite amazing.

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December 29, 2022

Divine utterances The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria

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Divine utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria By Katherine J. Hagedorn
2001 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 156098922X | PDF | 36 MB
In Divine Utterances, Katherine J. Hagedorn explores the enduring cultural and spiritual power of the music of Afro-Cuban Santería and the process by which it has been transformed for a secular audience. She focuses on the integral connections between sacred music performances and the dramatizations of theatrical troupes, especially the state-sponsored Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba, and examines the complex relationships involving race, politics, and religion in Cuba. The music that Hagedorn describes is rooted in Afro-Cuban religious tradition and today pervades secular performances that can produce a trance in audience members in the same way as a traditional religious ceremony.Hagedorn’s analysis is deeply informed by her experiences in Cuba as a woman, scholar, and apprentice batá drummer. She argues that constructions of race and gender, the politics of pre- and post-Revolutionary Cuba, the economics of tourism, and contemporary practices within Santería have contributed to a blurring of boundaries between the sacred and the folkloric. As both modes now vie for primacy in Cuba’s burgeoning tourist trade, what had once been the music of a marginalized group is now a cultural expression of national pride.

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November 28, 2022

Cuban fire The story of Salsa and Latin jazz

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Cuban fire: The story of Salsa and Latin jazz By Isabelle Leymarie
2002 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0826455867 | PDF | 32 MB
This title tells the saga of popular music of Cuban origin, and its major artists from the 1920s to today. Afro-Cuban music derives its richness from the fusion of various cultures. On the island of tobacco, rum and coffee, the marriage of sacred and secular African musical genres with Spanish and French melodies has given rise to numerous genres which have gained international fame: son, rhumba, guaracha, conga, mambo, cha-cha-cha, pachanga, nueva timba. In the US, Cubans have settled alongside other Hispanic communities. In New York, the boogaloo, salsa and Latin jazz, created by musicians such as Machito, Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo emerged from contact with Puerto Ricans and African-Americans, and the rhythms of Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo were integrated into salsa and Latin jazz.

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