Everynight life : culture and dance in Latin/o America

Everynight life : culture and dance in Latin/o America /

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 femin...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Delgado, Celeste Fraser (Editor), Muñoz, José Esteban (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1997
Series:Latin America otherwise.
Subjects:
Dance > Latin America > History.
Dance > Latin America > Sociological aspects.
Dance > Political aspects > Latin America.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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