Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

by Umi Vaughan

Book Overview

Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance shows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. Umi Vaughan, an African American anthropologist, musician, dancer, and photographer "plantao" in Cuba--planted, living like a Cuban--reveals a rarely discussed perspective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047211848X
• ISBN13: 9780472118489
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"