Monday, February 2, 2015

Questions for: Rosalie Schwartz, “The Invasion of the Tourists" and Robin Moore, “Nationalizing Blackness: The Vogue of Afrocubanismo,”

  1. What was the Cuban government trying to accomplish by making tourism their main focus for the economy?

    2. What are the similarities and differences between the tourism boom of the 1920's and of the 1950's?

    3. What was the first philanthropic society and what were its goals?

    4. What are some of the complexities and ironies of afrocubanismo music and how did Ignacio Villa personify these? 

    5.  In the context of musical expression, what was the essential conflict between nationalist aspirations and sociocultural attitudes in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century?  

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