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Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-6035-2
Publication date:
2024
Book Chapter
Underworld Assembly
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Published:November 2024
Chapter 5 is a meditation on the choreographies of fugitive public assembly that rumba opens. The chapter situates an atypical (though far from singular) night at a public theater within the changing racial geography of “updating” Havana, wherein whites increasingly flee to burgeoning private-business establishments. The possibility of spiritual immanence in state-owned venues accessible to poorer Blacks beckons deeper consideration of what creative maneuvers within staged folkloric performance can mean beside a Black radical imaginary beyond “resistance.” A dance analytics allows for consideration of constrained improvisations in broader diasporic relation and their black feminist potentialities.
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