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Celia en Cuba (1925-1962) is the result of a detailed investigation into the background, origins, and development of Celia Cruz’s musical career in her country of birth. Celia's musical influence cuts across the Cuban 20th century in a multiplicity of spaces, genres, and modes of expression, impacting the Caribbean, Latin America, and the world, as one of its most authentic and highly regarded figures. What were the circumstances that enabled Celia to represent the continuity and the expansion of the achievements of Afrocuban women in popular music? How did she take on the expressive possibilities of the genres that she cultivated and the spaces where she performed? What is the significance of her period in Cuba? What made her extraordinary success possible in culturally, socially, and generationally diverse spaces? These are some of the questions that the author, Rosa Marquetti, will address in her Distinguished Lecture.

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Rosa Marquetti Torres

Celia en Cuba (1925-1962) is the result of a detailed investigation into the background, origins, and development of Celia Cruz’s musical career in her country of birth. Celia's musical influence cuts across the Cuban 20th century in a multiplicity of spaces, genres, and modes of expression, impacting the Caribbean, Latin America, and the world, as one of its most authentic and highly regarded figures. What were the circumstances that enabled Celia to represent the continuity and the expansion of the achievements of Afrocuban women in popular music? How did she take on the expressive possibilities of the genres that she cultivated and the spaces where she performed? What is the significance of her period in Cuba? What made her extraordinary success possible in culturally, socially, and generationally diverse spaces? These are some of the questions that the author, Rosa Marquetti, will address in her Distinguished Lecture.

Ana Dopico

Ana Dopico is the Director of the Hemispheric Institute at New York University, and a comparative scholar of the Americas, Cuba, the Caribbean, and the Global South. She is also Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU. From 2014-2019, she was Director of NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. Professor Dopico's essays and cultural journalism on the Cuban present have been published and translated in print media and literary journals, including The New York Times, NACLA, Al Adab (Arabic), L'Avenc (Catalan) and in the digital project Bridges to/from Cuba. In her book project, Cubanologies, Altered States of the Nation, Professor Dopico examines the "imagined disunity" of the nation revealed by 20th century Cuban culture, wherein altered political states fracture the unifying political and racial myths of cubanidad.