Everynight life : culture and dance in Latin/o America / Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delgado, Celeste Fraser.

Muñoz, José Esteban.

Series:

Latin America otherwise.

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Latin America--History.

Dance.

Dance--Latin America--Sociological aspects.

Dance--Political aspects--Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in Latin/o America, Everynight Life translates the motion of bodies into speech, and the gestures of dance into a provocative socio-political grammar.This anthology looks at many modes of dance—including salsa, merengue, cumbia, rumba, mambo, tango, samba, and norteño—as models for the interplay of cultural memory and regional conflict. Barbara Browning’s essay on capoeira, for instance, demonstrates how dance has been used as a literal form of resistance, while José Piedra explores the meanings conveyed by women of color dancing the rumba. Pieces such as Gustavo Perez Fírmat’s "I Came, I Saw, I Conga’d" and Jorge Salessi’s "Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens" illustrate the lively scope of this volume’s subject matter.Contributors. Barbara Browning, Celeste Fraser Delgado, Jane C. Desmond, Mayra Santos Febres, Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia, Josh Kun, Ana M. López, José Esteban Muñoz, José Piedra, Gustavo Perez Fírmat, Augusto C. Puleo, David Román, Jorge Salessi, Alberto Sandoval

Contents:

Preface : politics in motion / Celeste Fraser Delgado

Rebellions of everynight life / Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz

Embodying difference : issues in dance and cultural studies / Jane C. Desmond

Headspin : Capoeira's ironic inversions / Barbara Browning

Hip poetics / José Piedra

Medics, crooks, and tango queens : the national appropriation of a gay tango / Jorge Salessi

Salsa as translocation / Mayra Santos Febres

Notes toward a reading of salsa / Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia

Una verdadera crónica del Norte : una noche con la India / Augusto C. Puleo

I came, I saw, I conga'd : contexts for a Cuban-American culture / Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Caught in the web : Latinidad, AIDS, and allegory in Kiss of the spider woman, the musical / David Román and Alberto Sandoval

Against easy listening : audiotopic readings and transnational soundings / Josh Kun

Of rhythms and borders / Ana M. Lopez.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-358) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822396673

082239667X

OCLC:

1139837174