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Trumpets in the Mountains is a compelling ethnography about Cuban culture; artistic performance; and the shift in national identity after 1990; when the loss of Soviet subsidies plunged Cuba into a severe economic crisis. The states response involved opening the economy to foreign capital and tourism; and promoting previously deprecated cultural practices as quintessentially Cuban. Such contradictions of Cubas revolutionary ideals elicited an official preoccupation with how twenty-first-century cubaniacute;a; or Cubanness; was to be understood by its citizens and creatively interpreted by its artists. The rural campesino was re-envisioned as a key symbol of the future; the embodiment of socialist humility; cultural pureness; and educated refinement; potentially the Hombre Noviacute;simo (even newer man) to replace the Hombre Nuevo (new man) of Cuban communist philosophy.Campesinos inhabit some of the islands most isolated areas; including the mountainous regions in central and eastern Cuba where Laurie A. Frederik conducted research among rural communities and professional theater groups. Analyzing the ongoing dialogue of cultural officials; urban and rural artists; and campesinos; Frederik provides an on-the-ground account of how visions of the nation are developed; manipulated; dramatized; and maintained in public consciousness. She shows that cubaniacute;a is defined; and redefined; in the interactive movement between intellectual; political; and everyday worlds.