Fiesta de diez pesos
Subtitle: music and gay identity in Special Period Cuba
By: Moshe Morad
Series: SOAS musicology series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781472424570
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Homosexuality and popular music; Homosexuality; Music; Homosexuality and music; Gay culture; Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-282), filmography (page 282), and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding... (setting the scene). Understanding Cuban homosexualities : from "maricón" to "gay"; title: "Swing to sunshine in gay Havana" : the capital's musicscape, ethnoscape, and homoscape; title: Dance music and the fiestas. The fiestas de diez pesos scene; title: "Watch how the locas do the despelote!" : dance music genres and their queer appropriation; title: "Dancing identity" : social and musical analysis of the fiestas scene; title: "El Chow" : performance, performativity, and audience. Performance, performativity, and camp : a brief introduction to part III; title: Drag shows : glamour, empowerment, and resistance; title: El Ballet Nacional : "The most obvious discreet gay space in Havana"; title: Changó versus Santa Barbara : Santería ritual performance as a gay space; title: ¡Yo soy el bolero! : Queer appropriation and identification in the kitchen.; title: Conclusion and some theoretical framing; title: Epilogue. ¡Ya empezó la fiesta! (The party has already begun!); title: Appendix. In the field : methodology and ethics.