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Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In this book the author probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pérez Firmat, Gustavo, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Popular culture > United States.
Popular culture > Cuba.
National characteristics, Cuban.
Americans > Travel > Cuba > History.
Cubans.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Culture populaire > Cuba.
Cubains.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Americans > Travel.
Civilization > Cuban influences.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture.
United States > Civilization > Cuban influences.
Cuba > In popular culture.
Cuba > Social life and customs.
Havana (Cuba) > Social life and customs.
Cuba > Dans la culture populaire.
Cuba.
Cuba > Havana.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: so near and yet so foreign
  • America's smartest city
  • A little rumba numba
  • Music for the eyes
  • Mad for mambo
  • Cuba in Apt. 3-B
  • Dirges in bolero time
  • Comic comandantes, exotic exiles
  • A taste of Cuba
  • Epilogue: Adams's apple.

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