Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special Period Cuba By Moshe Morad Hardcover 1472424573 9781472424570 Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special Period Cuba The Special Period in Cuba was an extended era of economic depression starting in the early 1990s, characterized by the collapse of revolutionary values and social norms, and a way of life conducted by improvised solutions for survival, including hustling and sex work. During this time there developed a thriving, though constantly harassed and destabilized, clandestine gay scene (known as the ambiente). In the course of eight visits between 1995 and 2007, the last dozen years of Fidel Castros reign, Moshe Morad became absorbed in Havanas gay scene, where he created a wide social network, attended numerous secret gatherings from clandestine parties to religious rituals and observed patterns of behavior and communication. He discovered the role of music in this scene as a marker of identity, a source of queer codifications and identifications, a medium of interaction, an outlet for emotion and a way to escape from a reality of scarcity, oppression and despair.Morad identified and conducted his research in different types of musical space, from illegal clandestine parties held in changing locations, to ballet halls, drag show bars, private living rooms and kitchens and santer�a religious ceremonies. In this important study, the first on the subject, he argues that music plays a central role in providing the physical, emotional, and conceptual spaces which constitute this scene and in the formation of a new hybrid gay identity in Special Period Cuba.

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The Special Period in Cuba was an extended era of economic depression starting in the early 1990s characterized by the collapse of revolutionary values and social norms and a way of life conducted by improvised solutions for survival including hustling and sex work During this time there developed a thriving though constantly harassed and destabilized clandestine gay scene known as the ambiente In the course of eight visits between 1995 and 2007 the last dozen years of Fidel Castro s reign Moshe Morad became absorbed in Havana s gay scene where he created a wide social network attended numerous secret gatherings from clandestine parties to religious rituals and observed patterns of behavior and communication He discovered the role of music in this scene as a marker of identity a source of queer codifications and identifications a medium of interaction an outlet for emotion and a way to escape from a reality of scarcity oppression and despair. Book Fiesta de diez pesos gold coin Morad identified and conducted his research in different types of musical space from illegal clandestine parties held in changing locations to ballet halls drag show bars private living rooms and kitchens and santer a religious ceremonies In this important study the first on the subject he argues that music plays a central role in providing the physical emotional and conceptual spaces which constitute this scene and in the formation of a new hybrid gay identity in Special Period Cuba Fiesta de diez pesos Music and Gay Identity in Special Period Cuba

Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special Period Cuba By Moshe Morad

1472424573

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