Revista de Estudios Sociales

rev. estud. soc. | eISSN 1900-5180 | ISSN 0123-885X

Remembering Africa, Inventing Uruguay: Sociedades de Negros in the Montevideo Carnival, 1865-1930

No. 26 (2007-04-01)
  • George Reid Andrews
https://doi.org/10.7440/res26.2007.06

Abstract

The article studies the historical process by which African and European music and dances merged into the so-called “national rhythms”, buildingnational identities in Latin America. Such process implied complex negotiations for each country, in terms of race, ethnicity, gender and socialclasses. As an example, the author deals with the national rhythm best-known as candombe uruguayo, key piece in the Annual Montevideo Carnival since mid-1800’s.

Keywords: carnival, Africa, candombe, Uruguay, nacional identity, race

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