03535nam 2200709Ia 450 991082238070332120240418010348.01-299-46373-80-300-16876-410.12987/9780300168761(CKB)2670000000335044(StDuBDS)AH24393392(SSID)ssj0000860330(PQKBManifestationID)11499671(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860330(PQKBWorkID)10898463(PQKB)11195840(MiAaPQ)EBC3421163(DE-B1597)486083(OCoLC)841170911(DE-B1597)9780300168761(Au-PeEL)EBL3421163(CaPaEBR)ebr10687915(CaONFJC)MIL477623(OCoLC)923602741(EXLCZ)99267000000033504420100427d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe Havana habit /Gustavo Perez Firmat1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20101 online resource (192 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-14132-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-225) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction. So Near And Yet So Foreign --One. America's Smartest City --Two. A Little Rumba Numba --Three. Music For The Eyes --Four. Mad For Mambo --Five. Cuba In Apt. 3-B --Six. Dirges In Bolero Time --Seven. Comic Comandantes, Exotic Exiles --Eight. A Taste Of Cuba --Epilogue. Adams's Apple --Notes --IndexCuba, 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 the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat 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 Havana Habit deftly illustrates what makes Cuba, as Pérez Firmat writes, "so near and yet so foreign."Popular cultureUnited StatesPopular cultureCubaNational characteristics, CubanAmericansTravelCubaHistoryUnited StatesCivilizationCuban influencesCubaIn popular cultureCubaSocial life and customsHavana (Cuba)Social life and customsPopular culturePopular cultureNational characteristics, Cuban.AmericansTravelHistory.306.0973Perez Firmat Gustavo1949-861645MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822380703321The Havana habit4034118UNINA