The activities related to the Fidel the Musical project are on the link below.
https://web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/fidelthemusical.soton.ac.uk/
I was interviewed by BBC news following the death of Fidel Castro in Nov 2016. An interview which later went viral on social media. See the video here.
A playlist of some of the songs and videos in the early stages of the musical are here.
The musical was a fun way to disseminate my research on Cuba:
- The leadership style of Fidel Castro: a decolonial perspective, Denise Baden, Naveena Prakasam & Stephen Wilkinson, 2024, Bulletin of Latin American Research, DOI: 10.1111/blar.13620
- Cuban exceptionalism and leader succession, Denise Baden, Naveena Prakasam & Stephen Wilkinson, 2023, International Journal of Cuban Studies, 15(1), 71-88, DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.15.1.007
- Corporate Social Responsibility Cuban style, Denise Baden & Stephen Wilkinson, 2021
- Towards ecological public health? Cuba’s moral economy of food and agriculture, M. Wilson, Denise Baden & Stephen Wilkinson, 2020, Third World Quarterly, 41(11), 1793-1808, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2020.1787825
- Contrasting leadership styles of Fidel and Raúl Castro, Denise Baden & Steve Wilkinson, 2018
- On Western bias against Cuba, Denise Baden, 2017, International Journal of Cuban Studies, 9(1), 16-18, DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.9.1.0016
- Our musical ‘Fidel’ will try to puncture the polarised debate about Castro, Denise Baden, 2016, The Conversation.
- Fidel’ A musical by the people for the people. A reflection on a process of musical development based on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and audience participation.
- Denise Baden, 2016
- What the US can learn from Cuba during Obama’s historic visit, Denise Baden, 2016, The Conversation
- Ethics in Pharma: a case study from Cuba, D. Baden, S. Wilkinson & C. Davis, 2015
- Socially responsible enterprise in Cuba: a positive role model for CSR?, D. Baden & S. Wilkinson, 2014, International Journal of Cuban Studies, 6(1), 55-86
The process of the musical by the people was written up as a TV series, see https://www.dabaden.com/screenplays-in-development/#Fidel-Castro.
I am currently adapting the TV script to book form, provisionally called Fidel Castro: My New Boyfriend, building upon the character of GG who appears in The Philosopher and the Assassin as a music lecturer who only produces miserable music. She is sent to Cuba in the hope she’ll be inspired by the more cheerful salsa music, but instead is taken over by the spirit of Fidel Castro who wants her to make a musical of his life.
