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Residues of History Affect, and the Resonance of Revolutionary Spirits in Two Cuban Forms of Spiritism
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Abstract
The figure of the Revolutionary or independence fighter, or indeed the Afro-Cuban maroon, is a fundamental trope of efficacy in Cuban Spiritism. But the question of the vestiges, or residues of resistance and ruin in bodies is an interesting one to ask in the light of Cuba’s socialist Revolution and its obvious traces of trauma in people’s bodies. I will look at two cases, in different historical periods, that understand Revolution as a material dimension of the body; in the first case as a molecular structure of the body enmeshed with the dead — which must be necessarily disentangled; in the second case, as an attrition, a worn-out ideal, which, when manifest as the disenchanted, pragmatic street-wise spirits of a post-1980s Cuba, perpetuate the remnants of something “lost” in people’s sensory experiences. In both cases I will follow Kristina Wirtz’s proposal of applying the concept of “chronotopes” to Afro-Cuban religion, as well as looking at affect as an intensive force that manifests as a bodily awareness of Revolution modulated through states of possession.
Keywords:
- Cuba,
- chronotopes,
- affect,
- spirit mediumship,
- bodily histories,
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Puerto Rico Picking Henry Zayas Releases Honest Anthem Celebrating Puerto Rican Identity have a word with Culture
Boricua Como el Coqui
Henry Zayas
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His Musical Background...
Before 1922, Puerto Rico had no radio stations and thus no way to widely diffuse traditional music or its foremost expression--the Puerto Rican décima--across the country. By 1910 however, there existed several North American record companies that recorded Puerto Rican performers in San Juan which, although they were not traditional troubadours, did record traditional music pieces. Much of the traditional music (seis, aguinaldo, décimas) was indeed quite popular at the time, even though it represented only a small part of the recorded repertory. The Edison and Columbia companies were mostly recording Gracia López, Jorge Santoni, Manuel Tizol and the Orquesta Cocolía during that period.By 1914-1915 the anthropologist J. Alden Mason visited Puerto Rico and produced more than 100 historically valuable field recordings. These recordings included aguinaldos, décimas, seises, bombas and other Puerto Rican genres. Between 1916 and 1921 we find even more companies recording or searching for recording talent in Puerto Rico. In 1916, the Victor company recorded more than 20 pieces by the Quinteto Borinquen, among which only several numbers with a traditional flavor were included.
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