LEADER 03572nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910463122003321 005 20211028204220.0 010 $a1-299-46373-8 010 $a0-300-16876-4 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300168761 035 $a(CKB)2670000000335044 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24393392 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860330 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11499671 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860330 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10898463 035 $a(PQKB)11195840 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421163 035 $a(DE-B1597)486083 035 $a(OCoLC)841170911 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300168761 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421163 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10687915 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL477623 035 $a(OCoLC)923602741 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000335044 100 $a20100427d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Havana habit$b[electronic resource] /$fGustavo Perez Firmat 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-14132-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-225) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. So Near And Yet So Foreign --$tOne. America's Smartest City --$tTwo. A Little Rumba Numba --$tThree. Music For The Eyes --$tFour. Mad For Mambo --$tFive. Cuba In Apt. 3-B --$tSix. Dirges In Bolero Time --$tSeven. Comic Comandantes, Exotic Exiles --$tEight. A Taste Of Cuba --$tEpilogue. Adams's Apple --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aCuba, 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." 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States 606 $aPopular culture$zCuba 606 $aNational characteristics, Cuban 606 $aAmericans$xTravel$zCuba$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$xCuban influences 607 $aCuba$xIn popular culture 607 $aCuba$xSocial life and customs 607 $aHavana (Cuba)$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPopular culture 615 0$aPopular culture 615 0$aNational characteristics, Cuban. 615 0$aAmericans$xTravel$xHistory. 676 $a306.0973 700 $aPerez Firmat$b Gustavo$f1949-$0861645 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463122003321 996 $aThe Havana habit$92482255 997 $aUNINA