To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution

by Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt

Book Overview

Grounded in painstaking research, To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture revisits the circumstances which led to the arts being embraced at the heart of the Cuban Revolution. Introducing the main protagonists to the debate, this previously untold story follows the polemical twists and turns that ensued in the volatile atmosphere of the 1960s and '70s. The picture that emerges is of a struggle for dominance between Soviet-derived approaches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629631043
• ISBN13: 9781629631042
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: PM Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"