Everynight Life

Culture and Dance in Latin/o America

Celeste Fraser Delgado, José Esteban Muñoz (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

376 Seiten

1997
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-1926-9 (ISBN)

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The function of dance in Latin American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in Latin America, this title translates the motion of bodies into speech, and the gestures of dance into a provocative socio-political grammar.

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

Celeste Fraser Delgado is Music Editor at the weekly New Times in Miami. JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

About the Series ix
Preface: Politics in Motion / Celeste Fraser Delgado 3
Rebellions of Everynight Life / Celeste Fraser Delgado and JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz 9
Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies / Jane C. Desmond 33
Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions / Barbara Browning 65
Hip Poetics / JosÉ Piedra 93
Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens: The National Appropriation of a Gay Tango / Jorge Salessi (Translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado) 141
Salsa as Translocation / Mayra Santos Febres 175
Notes toward a Reading of Salsa / Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia (Translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado) 189
Una Verdadera crÓnica del Norte: Una noche con la India / Augusto C. Puleo (Translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado) 223
I Came, I Saw, I Conga'd: Contexts for a Cuban-American Culture / Gustavo PÉrez Firmat 239
Caught in the Web: Latinidad, AIDS, and Allegory in Kiss of the Spider Woman, the Musical / David RomÁn and Alberto Sandoval 255
Against Easy Listening: Audiotopic Readings and Transnational Soundings / Josh Kun 288
Of Rhythms and Borders / Ana M. LÓpez 310
Bibliography 345
Index 359
Contributors 365

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.6.1997
Reihe/Serie	Latin America Otherwise
Zusatzinfo	18 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	853 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-1926-8 / 0822319268
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-1926-9 / 9780822319269
Zustand	Neuware