The Resource The Havana habit, Gustavo Pérez Firmat
The Havana habit, Gustavo Pérez Firmat
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The item The Havana habit, Gustavo Pérez Firmat represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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, in the cultural history of the United States. Through books, advertisements, travel guides, films, and music, he demonstrates the influence of the island on almost two centuries of American life. From John Quincy Adams's comparison of Cuba to an apple ready to drop into America's lap, to the latest episodes in the lives of the "comic comandantes and exotic exiles," and to such notable Cuban exports as the rumba and the mambo, cigars and mojitos, the Cuba that emerges from these pages is a locale that Cubans and Americans have jointly imagined and inhabited. The book deftly illustrates what makes Cuba, as the author writes, "so near and yet so foreign."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 245 p.
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780300141320
- Label
- The Havana habit
- Title
- The Havana habit
- Statement of responsibility
- Gustavo Pérez Firmat
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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, in the cultural history of the United States. Through books, advertisements, travel guides, films, and music, he demonstrates the influence of the island on almost two centuries of American life. From John Quincy Adams's comparison of Cuba to an apple ready to drop into America's lap, to the latest episodes in the lives of the "comic comandantes and exotic exiles," and to such notable Cuban exports as the rumba and the mambo, cigars and mojitos, the Cuba that emerges from these pages is a locale that Cubans and Americans have jointly imagined and inhabited. The book deftly illustrates what makes Cuba, as the author writes, "so near and yet so foreign."
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pérez Firmat, Gustavo
- Dewey number
- 306.0973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E169.12
- LC item number
- .P483 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Popular culture
- Popular culture
- National characteristics, Cuban
- Americans
- United States
- Cuba
- Cuba
- Havana (Cuba)
- Label
- The Havana habit, Gustavo Pérez Firmat
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- x, 245 p.
- Isbn
- 9780300141320
- Isbn Type
- (clothbound : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010017498
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn601346826
- (OCoLC)601346826
- Label
- The Havana habit, Gustavo Pérez Firmat
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- x, 245 p.
- Isbn
- 9780300141320
- Isbn Type
- (clothbound : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010017498
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn601346826
- (OCoLC)601346826
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