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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"Cuban"”.
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Cuban Alleluia, piano concerto.
Cuban Alleluia is a concerto for piano and orchestra written in three movements. These movements are based on the rhythmic pattern of the ‘Cuban Cinquillo’, which recurs throughout the piece, creating a sense of unity among its various sections. The piece is intended as a hymn of praise to God, …
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The Other at War: Performing the Spanish-Cuban-American War on U.S. and Cuban Stages
<p>The Spanish-Cuban-American War, declared by the United States on April 25, 1898, marks a colonial shift in the history of the Caribbean and solidified the expansionist thrust of the United States outside national borders. Theatres in turn-of-the-century New York, which at this point was one of …
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Afro-Cuban and Latin Jazz Compositions
… include writing music with different Afro-Cuban rhythms as well as the use of the clave as a backbeat to the melodic ideas. Also, it explores different harmonic and melodic approaches used in a composition and stylistic ideas reflected in jazz styles. For each piece, the composer makes use …
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Indiana's reaction to the Cuban crisis, 1895-1898
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Community-centered health care : b the Cuban experience
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1983.
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Performing exile: Cuban-American women’s performance art, 1972-2014
… of exile as seen in the relationship between Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s attempt to restage 2009’s Tatlin’s Whisper #6 and President Barack Obama’s 2014 announcement of normalizing relations between the two nations.
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Manifestations of humanism in Cuban history, politics, and culture
… of the most perceptible humanistic features in Cuban history, politics, and culture, less specified, or highlighted, or generally not presented in a cohesive body of knowledge in the western scholarly world. In the context of its subject, the thesis embraces rational-critical thinking and …
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INTIMATE ENEMIES: VISUAL CULTURE AND U.S.-CUBAN RELATIONS, 1945-2000
… connections, produced before the 1959 Cuban revolution, assisted in fortifying linkages between the two nations; whereas after the revolution, adversarial imagery further splintered the relation between the two countries. I argue that the visual culture produced in Cuba and the United …
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Cuban Women in Music: a Case Study of Ernestina Lecuona
… Under unstable political conditions, the Cuban people experienced some riots and civil wars in the first half of the twentieth century. At the same time, the improvement of social services between 1900 and 1930 provided public education to citizens, regardless of gender or class. As an era …
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Archiving the revolution : claiming history in Cuban literature and film
… were responsible for the construction of the Cuban Revolutionary Archive. On one hand, the immediate foundation of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) three months after the triumph of Fidel Castro's 26 of July guerrilla movement in 1959, showed the urgency to establish a cinematic apparatus that …
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The McKinley administration and Cuban independence (March, 1897-April, 1898)
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of History, 1954
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Race and Inequality in Cuban Tourism During the 21st Century
… as a rich and diverse culture. Yet, throughout Cuban history, the beauty of this famous socialist nation has been marred by social inequalities, primarily affecting class, gender, and race. In the Cuban tourism sector in particular, the three aforementioned components have been prevalent since …
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Embodied Dissent: Exploring the Activist Turn in Contemporary Cuban Art
… ningún derecho’. These words have permeated the Cuban art scene ever since, with some artists choosing to work within Castro’s prescribed ideals and others seeking to problematise them. Those artists deemed counterrevolutionary have faced significant consequences, including imprisonment, erasure, …
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Cuban Embargo: An Insufficient Measure to Encourage US Foreign Policy Interests
This major paper examines the Cuban embargo as an ineffective hard power policy and explores the potential of soft, hard, and smart power as alternative approaches to resolve the failures of the 60-year-old blockade. The paper analyzes the historical context and rationale behind the embargo and …
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Cultural models of food in cuban miami: Roots, Yucas, and Moros
Roots, Yucas, and Moros are all foods that Cubans commonly eat, and these foods are also are imbued with symbolic meaning. Roots are one of the few vegetables present in the typical Cuban diet. And roots represent the powerful first generation Cubans who arrived in the 1960s after Castro first came …
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The Cuban Experience: Comparative of Health Systems and Infant Mortality Rates
… This paper addresses the United States’ and Cuban models of healthcare through a comparative lens to investigate the potential use of Cuba’s maternal and infant health practices to mirror similar preventative strategies that promote infant health. The field-based project with the Escuela …
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History, organization and belief among Cuban "plantado" political prisoners, 1959-1993
Anti-Castro activists began organizing guerrilla groups in the early 1960's to oppose the revolutionary government of Cuba. The perception that the new regime posed a threat to religion and pre-existing cultural values were among the motives for this activity. This thesis presents three case …
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"""Donde Nace Lo Cubano"": Aesthetics, Nationalist Sentiment, and Cuban Music Making"
… examines where, when, and how processes of cubanidad have emerged historically in the project of 'nation' building in 20th and early 21st century Cuba. I demonstrate how music making has occupied a privileged role in the construction of cubanidad and the ways in which it continues to exert a …
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