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62. Scholar: Hurricanes Helped Shape Cuban Culture, History 29, 2001 No. 610. Scholar hurricanes helped shape cuban culture, history. CHAPELHILL When hurricane season in the Caribbean officially ends Friday, (Nov. http://www.unc.edu/news/newsserv/archives/nov01/perez112901.htm

NEWS SERVICES 210 Pittsboro Street, Campus Box 6210 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-6210 (919) 962-2091 FAX: (919) 962-2279 www.unc.edu/news/newsserv NEWS For immediate use Nov. 29, 2001 No. 610 Scholar: hurricanes helped shape Cuban culture, history CHAPEL HILL When hurricane season in the Caribbean officially ends Friday, (Nov. 30) many Cubans, especially farmers, will probably breathe a sigh of relief. They survived Hurricane Michelle’s wrath earlier this month, but the fallout was five deaths and ruined crops, wrecked sugar mills and destroyed homes. Hurricanes are a fact of life in Cuba, which has historically been hard-hit during the annual four-month Caribbean season. Some may grow accustomed to dealing with the recurring storms, but in a new book, historian Dr. Louis A. Perez Jr. contends that the hurricanes have significantly affected the culture and its people. "My premise is that historians focus a great deal on what people do together, but now and then, the forces of nature overwhelm a culture and affect how cultures become what they are," said Perez, J. Carlyle Sitterson professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Nature opens up a new dimension weather, calamity to historical research." In "Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba" (UNC Press, 2001), Perez, a New York native whose grandfather was born in Cuba, examines questions about national character and recurring calamities. "What makes the French French? What makes Americans Americans? One factor is environment weather patterns, famine, harsh climates, earthquakes, floods are all assimilated into cultural characteristics," he said.

63. The Good 5 Cent Cigar Teachin reveals truth about cuban culture, government, , The Good5 Cent Cigar, a newspaper of University of Rhode Island. http://www.ramcigar.com/news/2004/02/18/News/TeachIn.Reveals.Truth.About.Cuban.C

document.write(''+''); Home News Teach-in reveals truth about Cuban culture, government By Summer Witts Published: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 Media Credit: Meghan Vendettoli Social psychologists Bernice and Al Lott detail their trip to Cuba as part of the Cuba Teach-In. 02/18/04 - A projector flashed a slide of two smiling faces across a wide screen in Atrium II of the Memorial Unions yesterday afternoon. It was a photograph of Naomi and Abel, a Cuban couple who artist John Kotula of Wakefield met while in Havana during the summer of 2002. "Who would have thought, a Cuban man who can't dance," Kotula said Abel joked about Naomi's aversion to dancing. Abel loved to dance, but Naomi, a sound technician, preferred listening to music instead and hoped to study music in the United States in hopes of becoming a disc jockey. Kotula talked about his meeting with the pair to a small group of professors, students and humanitarians gathered together to discuss the social, economic, political and artistic aspects of Cuban culture in a daylong teach-in sponsored by the URI Multicultural Center. As Kotula went through his slides of a policeman, an out of work fisherman, a lawyer and a landlady, as well as a dozen or so photographs of famous Cuban artists and their work, one could gain a sense of Cuban culture people in the United States are not usually exposed to.

64. CubaNet - News/Noticias: A GLANCE AT CUBAN CULTURE/ APIC Distributed by CubaNet Oct. 30, 1996. FROM CUBA. A GLANCE AT CUBANCULTURE By Lucas Garve, Cuba s Independent Press Agency (APIC). http://64.21.33.164/CNews/y96/oct96/31ccult.html

Distributed by CubaNet Oct. 30, 1996 FROM CUBA A GLANCE AT CUBAN CULTURE By Lucas Garve, Cuba's Independent Press Agency (APIC). HAVANA, October 23, 1996 (APIC).- For several years now, October 20th was selected to mark the day of Cuban Culture. In Bayamo, the craddle city of the Cuban nation, on October 20th the citizens heard, for the first time, a piece of music which was, more than a song, more than a religious chant, had the makings of a belligerent anthemn. Such was the birth of the Cuban anthemn. Many Cubans of that era contributed, with their labor and their ideas, to the emergence of Cuban culture. Our own, indivisible and a product of the actions, acts and accomplishments of all the inhabitants of the island, to a greater or lesser degree. This genesis was possible through the efforts of the slaves and the wealthy landowners, the Chinese immigrants, Spaniards who made their fortunes here, the black slaves and the mulatto freemen, the Catholic clergy from a hundred different religious orders and even more, the fleet and the contraband, the infamous whip and the warmth of the slave woman's bossom, the wet and dry climate, the land of sugar, tobacco and rum, the idea of independence and Spain's intolerance. All of this and more turned the island in what it is today. From here we come and, to be ourselves we must take on all our past even in the knowledge that it goes further than Cuba's natural frontiers, the creative work of Cubans who create under other skies, but have not stopped being part of Cuba's cultural creativity as they create within the spirit and traits of what is Cuban.

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68. Cheryl's Trip Report Trip Report on Afrocuban culture Trip. July 21-30, 1995. By CherylMusch In the face of the continuing US embargo, my landing in http://www.yachana.org/reports/cheryl.html

Trip Report on Afro-Cuban Culture Trip July 21-30, 1995 By Cheryl Musch In Havana, we began to build a basis of understanding of Afro-Cuban culture that would prove invaluable for the rest of the trip. Participating in rituals laced with rum, gunpowder, drumming and wild dancing allowed me to enter Cuban homes and lives. In the Atar‚s neighborhood, we met an 80-year-old woman, still the leader of the rumba dance, with long painted nails and an aura of feminine sensuality. In her home, we saw the results of an active and impressive neighborhood association. This independent organization focusses on community development by providing home improvement including painting, restoration, and retiling floors. Non-governmental organizations such as this one have blossomed in Cuba due to a lack of economic resources. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries, Cuba has been in what they've termed a "special period." One Cuban described this "special period" as wartime conditions without the war. Monthly food rations have been scaled back to the basics. Each month each person receives about 6 pounds of rice, some beans, sometimes some pasta, a little salt, sometimes about 7 eggs or a little bit of meat. Cooking oil, which was previously available, is no longer, and soap and dairy products (except for children under 7) are unavailable. We were told that children did not previously beg on the streets, but now they ask for a dollar or soap. Prostitution has also become a growing problem in Cuba. Young women who are intelligent and trained to be professional doctors or lawyers have chosen prostitution because earning dollars from tourists pays much more than what they could make as professionals, if they could get a job in their fields.

69. Cuban Culture And Music. Cuban Adventures Inc. Votre Agence De Voyage Cubaine Translate this page Cuban Adventures a conçu un voyage innoubiable pour ceux qui aimentles arts et la musique. Ce tour coïncide avec le Festival http://www.cubanadventures.com/FRANCOIS/tours_culture.asp

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70. Poet Brings Cuban Culture To Campus, Poetry - Informer - Entertainment Poet brings cuban culture to campus, poetry, , Informer, a newspaper ofUniversity of Hartford. Poet brings cuban culture to campus, poetry. http://www.hartfordinformer.com/news/2001/04/12/Entertainment/Poet-Brings.Cuban.

document.write(''+''); Archives Home Search About Us ... Our Staff document.write(currentissuemonthname.slice(0,3) + ' ' + currentissueday + ', ' + currentissueyear); Home Entertainment Poet brings Cuban culture to campus, poetry By Ryan Labbe Published: Thursday, April 12, 2001 “Richard Blanco was made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, and imported to the United States,” reads the opening sentence of his biography, as told on one of the final pages of Blanco’s collection of poetry titled City of a Hundred Fires. The term is translated from Cienfuegos, the town in Cuba where his family had lived. The Cardin Speaker series concluded last Thursday as Blanco, esteemed poet and professor at Central Connecticut State University, read selections from his book. Blanco received both a Bachelors of Science in civil engineering, as well as a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, showcasing an education as diverse as the culture expressed within his poetry. He further incorporates his culture into the poetry by not just making it the subject, but sometimes the language. The Spanish words and phrases he uses are often short and those with a background in Spanish will probably not have too much difficulty deciphering them. However, even those who aren’t familiar should have no problem with the reading, for the Spanish does not take away from the experience. City of a Hundred Fires is an enjoyable collection of works. I’ve never considered myself a great judge of poetry. I’ve read it, I’ve written it, but sometimes wonder if I’ve truly “gotten it.” Blanco writes a lot in prose form, using tangible imagery to create a picture of his culture that only he could have done. He divides the book up into two sections, BC and AC, or “before Cuba and after Cuba.”

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What is the Liceo Cubano? The Liceo Cubano is a virtual community for all cubans; research resource, exhange of memories and opinions, that provides a means to maintaining Cuban culture for all generations. This site is dedicated to providing an effective search engine/portal on information regarding Cuba and Cubans as well as establishing a communication venue on Cuban culture and issues. Any person interested in obtaining information on Cuba, its history, culture, and customs can find it through the Liceo Cubano. The Liceo Cubano Virtual Community provides several interesting sections such as: Today in the Liceo Cubano - an entertaining and educational section that presents a variety of topics regarding Cuba and its customs: facts, culture, personalities, recipes, news, pictures, special links and much more. La Colonia Cubana - our monthly magazine and e-mail newsletter, containing a variety of interesting Cuban topics: factual information, featured stories, special links, anecdotes, news, editorials and member contributions. Also informs our members on the social, cultural, and political events occurring in and out of the island nation.

72. Creating Alternative Cuban Culture / Octavio Roca / San Francisco Chronicle - Cu CUBANET CUBANEWS. September 17, 2001. Creating alternative cuban culture.Refugees brought their art, music, theater and dance with them. http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y01/sep01/17e7.htm

CUBAN E T CUBANEWS September 17, 2001 Creating alternative Cuban culture Refugees brought their art, music, theater and dance with them Octavio Roca, San Francisco Chronicle Dance Critic. Sunday, September 16, 2001 The problem with the American melting pot myth is that a lot of us just don't want to melt. I am Cuban, born in Havana. I am considered Hispanic on the East Coast and Latino here. And I am proud to be an American. I probably have about as much in common with other Americans of Hispanic background such as Argentines or Mexicans as any Anglophone Californian has with an Australian or a Jamaican. My story is like that of a lot of Cuban Americans, but it is not typical of the lives of others who bring different accents, different memories and different goals to the American dream. There is no single defining narrative for the Latino experience. As statistical fictions go, "Latino" is a useful term. But as a cultural entity, Hispanics cover the globe from the Pyrenees to Tierra del Fuego, and we come in all colors. Closer to home, we are the most diverse ethnic group in this vast multiethnic nation. Yet surely we can come up with ways to embrace our unity as Americans across our ethnic and racial differences, if only because it is these differences that constantly redefine and enrich the dazzling mosaic of American culture.

73. Timba - New Styles In Afro-Cuban Popular Music Dance is so important in the cuban culture. cuban culture is a valuable commodityin Cuba. The word commodity is used in its actual meaning. http://www.chucksilverman.com/timbapaper.html

Timba - New Styles in Afro-Cuban Popular Music History of Timba Girardo "Piloto" Barretto, one of the musicians who was first involved with this new musical style, comments that the favorite dance of the new crowd of dancers, despelote, "produces a phenomenal inspiration in the ‘groove of the montuno’, a determined chorus (voices) accompanying the rhythm, or a mambo from the horn section that produces this feeling which is different than the rest of the songs that they have heard". To dance this way, the musicians had to invent, little by little, the new style, which followed the dancers. (telephone interview, 1998) Much of the Cuban public saw the new style of music and dance when Señor Barretto performed with one of the first bands to play the style, NG (Nueva Generación or New Generation) La Banda. The word "despelote", which figuratively means "letting it all out", was used to describe the feeling of the people when they are dancing. The emergence of the new style, and its continued growth as new variants emerge, is also each Cuban musical groups attempt to put their own "stamp" on the music. Each band, in each successive recording, wants to develop the music further and continue to draw the attention from the dancers (telephone interview with Piloto Barretto).This musical development is very indicative of Cuban musicians and their music. Very rarely does one hear a band, especially the newer bands, remain in one style or remain using one particular "formula". A very important characteristic of Cuban music, especially in the years that this author has been involved with it, is the constant growth and evolution of the music. There

74. Vol.32, No. 8-- This Issue -- OnCampus, OSU"s Newspaper For Faculty And Staff Program exchanges cuban culture and art. By Susan Wittstock, onCAMPUS staff. OurCuban hosts are very interested in sharing cuban culture with students. . http://www.osu.edu/oncampus/v32n8/thisissue_2.html

Oct. 24 , 2002 Vol. 32, No. 8 Courtesy of Leandro Soto Diaspora , by Cuban artist Leandro Soto, will be on display in Hopkins Hall CorridorNov. 4-15. Soto is visiting Ohio State in November. Program exchanges Cuban culture and art By Susan Wittstock, onCAMPUS staff A new course, a visiting artist and a burgeoning exchange program are all coming together this fall to expose the Ohio State community to Cuban culture. The departments of theatre and comparative studies are offering a course on Cuban performance and culture that will conclude in December with a nine-day trip to Havana. Also this quarter, Cuban theater artist Leandro Soto will present a performance/video/installation work on Nov. 1 and 3 in Mount Hall Studio Theatre and will have artwork on display in Hopkins Hall Gallery Nov. 4-15. For the last several years, the Ohio Arts Council has been building a relationship with the Ludwig Foundation in Havana, Cuba. In 2000, when the Ludwig Foundation expressed interest in forming exchanges with theater artists, the OAC introduced Ohio State theatre faculty to Ludwig Foundation Executive Director Helmo Hernandez. Hernandez was impressed with Ohio State's theatre program and, at his invitation, several contingents of Ohio State faculty and Ohio theater professionals, including Dan Gray, associate professor of theatre, Lesley Ferris, chair of the department, and Mary Tarantino, lighting designer, made trips to Cuba over the next two years to meet with artists, attend performances and offer workshops.

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76. The Miami Herald 01/30/2002 Cuban Culture Hard To Find On Base Posted on Wed, Jan. 30, 2002. cuban culture hard to find on base atGuantanamo. BY CAROL ROSENBERG crosenberg@herald.com. GUANTANAMO http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/cuba/2570003.htm

77. Cuban Culture Greets Grinnell Volume 118, Number 6 October 12, 2001 cuban culture greets Grinnell.Despite initial hardships, Cuban speakers and performers appear http://web.grinnell.edu/sandb/archives/volume118/101201/news/cuban.html

@import url(http://www.grinnell.edu/sandb/style.css) Cuban culture greets Grinnell Despite initial hardships, Cuban speakers and performers appear at Grinnell with the intent of spreading knowledge of their native country By B.J. Bloom Staff Writer The topics ranged from discussions on politics and culture to poetry and fiction readings to performance art. The group met with artists and intellectuals associated with UNEAC, the Cuban Union of Writers and Artists. They all felt they learned a lot and wanted to bring the issues they had been studying for so long back to Iowa. Thus, the idea of the symposium was born. The sensitive nature of the U.S.-Cuban relationship factored into the planning of the symposium. While UNEAC and the Ministry of Culture initially approved the visas for the Cubans participating in the symposium, at some point in the Cuban hierarchy the decision was reversed. This decision was changed again, but by then many of the scholars had filed their papers late, which resulted in some of them arriving late. Part of the problem was with the U.S. INS, who required 10 working days to process the papers. Silva believes that the recent terrorist attacks had something to do with the strict nature of the U.S. visa process, since the INS has come under more scrutiny recently. In addition, he thinks that a large part of the problem rested with bureaucratic mistakes in filing papers late. But some of it also had to do with the U.S.-Cuban relationship.

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80. Cuban Actress And Director To Discuss Cuban Culture At WFU Flora Lautena Cuban actress, director, teacher and writer-will present a publiclecture on cuban culture at Wake Forest University s Museum of Anthropology on http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1997/111297c.htm

WFU News Service QuickFind . . . WFU Home WFU News Cuban Actress and Director to Discuss Cuban Culture By Cheryl Walker Posted Nov. 12, 1997 Flora Lauten-a Cuban actress, director, teacher and writer-will present a public lecture on Cuban culture at Wake Forest University's Museum of Anthropology on Monday, Nov. 17. Her talk, "Cuban Life and Culture," will begin at 7 p.m. in the museum classroom. An important figure in Cuban theater for the past 30 years, Lauten will spend the week at Wake Forest teaching a theater workshop and lecturing about various aspects of Cuban culture, including the SanterÌa, a Cuban religious cult of African origin. Lauten's Cuban theater troupe, Teatro Buendia, recently presented a version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Authored by Lauten and teaching colleague Raquel Carrio, "The Other Tempest" shows the collision of two cultures when Shylock, Prospero, Hamlet and MacBeth journey to an island and meet the Yoruba goddesses, the orishas. In conjunction with Lauten's visit, a photography exhibit by Candyce Leonard will be on display in Wake Forest's Z. Smith Reynolds Library. The 30-photograph exhibit, titled "Cuba 1996," presents photos of the Teatro Buendia rehearsing "The Other Tempest" as well as scenes of daily life in Havana taken during Leonard's research trip in November 1996. Lauten began her professional acting career as a member of Cuba's Teatro Estudio in the 1960s just after Fidel Castro had come to power. In 1980, she joined the faculty of Havana's Instituto Superior de Arte. In addition to teaching and directing, Lauten and her company travel regulaly for international performances. The Teatro Buendia has been selected as the Cuban representative to the United Nations Theater Festival scheduled for 1998.

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