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Argentine queer tango : dance and sexuality politics in Buenos Aires / by Mercedes Liska ; translated by Peggy Westwell and Pablo Vila.
Van Pelt Library GV1796.T3 L57 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liska, María Mercedes, author.
- Series:
- Music, culture, and identity in Latin America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tango (Dance)--Argentina--Buenos Aires.
- Tango (Dance).
- Sex in dance--Argentina--Buenos Aires.
- Sex in dance.
- Dance--Political aspects--Argentina--Buenos Aires.
- Dance.
- Music--Argentina--Buenos Aires.
- Music.
- Homosexuality in dance.
- Dance--Political aspects.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Social life and customs.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina).
- Manners and customs.
- Argentina--Buenos Aires.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 167 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- Argentine Queer Tango: Dance and Sexuality Politics in Buenos Aires investigates changes in tango dancing in Buenos Aires during the first decade of the twenty-first century and its relationship to contemporary social and cultural transformations. Mercedes Liska focuses on one of the proposed alternatives to conventional tango-queer tango-which proposes to rethink one of the alleged icons of a national culture from a feminist conception and to imagine social transformation processes from bodily experiences. Specifically, this book analyzes the value of bodily experiences, the redefinition of the mind-body relationship, and the transformation in the dynamics of the dance from the heteronormative movements of tango. In doing so, Liska addresses the ways in which bodily techniques and gender theories are involved in the denaturing and corporeality decoding of tango and its historical senses as well as the connections between different tango dance practices spread throughout the world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Tango Awaits You: Revitalization 1
- 2 Aesthetic Canon and Cultural Matrices of the Modem Body 21
- 3 Tango that Made Me Queer: Gender Activism in Dance Form 47
- 4 From Tradition to Betrayal: Innovations in Dance Music 69
- 5 The Mecca of Tango: Buenos Aires and Cultural Globalization 89
- 6 On the Dance Floor 107.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Liska, María Mercedes. Argentine queer tango.
- ISBN:
- 9781498538510
- 1498538517
- OCLC:
- 958798215
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