Cuban zarzuela
Subtitle: performing race and gender on Havana's lyric stage
By: Susan Thomas.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780252033315
Subjects: Zarzuela -- Cuba -- Havana; Sex role in music; Music and race
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cuban lyric theater in context; title: Eminently feminine: the politics of gender and genre; title: The mulata makes an entrance: the salidas of María la O, Cecilia Valdés, and Amalia Batista; title: From the negrito to the negro trágico: the changing representation of black masculinity; title: Ingenues and fallen women: representations of white femininity; title: Ambivalent heroes and sensual peasants: the galán and the criollo.