La nación cubana y Estados Unidos

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La empresa del descubrimiento, exploración, conquista y colonización de América, representa un esfuerzo verdaderamente gigantesco de la España católica, si bien se consideran, de una parte, el estado de esta, empobrecida y desangrada durante ocho siglos de guerras, con una población que no pasaba de los nueve millones de almas, y, de otra parte, la distancia y extensión de las tierras exploradas y colonizadas, y cuanto en ellas hizo la metrópoli en el trascurso de tres siglos. En suma, al ambiente americano se unieron lo étnico, lo social, lo político, lo económico, lo científico...

Nadie como Mendoza dirigió con tanto empeño sus esfuerzos para recopilar los cantos y las tonadas que surgieron en el seno mismo del pueblo mexicano durante los siglos XIX y XX; frente el pasado reciente, la obra de este estudioso adquiere un perfil definido de gran tarea de rescate y ordenamiento. Este es un estudio monográfico y de carácter antológico consagrado a la canción popular de nuestro país.