
Nationalizing Blackness uses the music of the 1920s and 1930s to examine Cuban society as it begins to embrace Afrocuban culture. Moore examines the public debate over \u201cdegenerate Africanisms\u201d associated with comparas or carnival bands; similar controversies associated...

Nationalizing Blackness uses the music of the 1920s and 1930s to examine Cuban society as it begins to embrace Afrocuban culture. Moore examines the public debate over \u201cdegenerate Africanisms\u201d associated with comparas or carnival bands; similar controversies associated...