Alegría y tradición: fiestas populares tradicionales cubanas
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Summary
"Joy and Tradition: Traditional Cuban Folk Festivals, is the first work that offers the reader broad and detailed information related to the traditional festivities of our people, an example of popular culture collectively conceived, both material and spiritual. This topic… is part of the scientific work Ethnographic Atlas of Cuba, Cuban Traditional Popular Culture, which has allowed for the recovery of peasant festivities, immigrants' festivities, carnivals, parades and brass bands, street dances, belonging to absent citizens, laborers and others, at the Municipal level. The present edition updates the research collected in the text published in 2013 under the title Fiestas y Tradiciones Cubanas and is the first study that focuses on the classification, conceptualization, ethnic origin, the evolutionary process and calendar of all the country's festivals. It also provides a review of each group of them, their geographic location and current manifestation, which represents, perhaps like no other, the characteristics of the Cuban, who by his idiosyncrasy is cheerful, festive, always ready to share in an atmosphere of revelry, hence the quantity and diversity of Cuban festivals." -- Translation provided by NLS