Performing Afro-Cuba : image, voice, spectacle in the making of race and history / Kristina Wirtz.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wirtz, Kristina (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Black people > Race identity > Cuba. Black people > Cuba > Social life and customs. Black people > Cuba > Social conditions. Folklore > Cuba > History.
Physical Description:	xiii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Semiotics of race and history
Image-inations of blackness
Bodies in motion : routes of blackness in the Carnivalesque
Voices : chronotopic registers and historical imagination in Cuban folk religious rituals
Pride : singing black history in the Carabalí cabildos
Performance : state-sponsored folklore spectacles of blackness as history
Brutology : the enregisterment of bozal, from "blackface" theater to spirit.