Everynight Life

Everynight Life

Culture and Dance in Latin/o America

  • Autor: Delgado, Celeste Fraser; Muñoz, José Esteban
  • Editor: Duke University Press
  • Col·lecció: Latin america otherwise
  • ISBN: 9780822319269
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822396673
  • Lloc de publicació:  Durham , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 1997
  • Mes: Juny
  • Pàgines: 376
  • DDC: 792.8/098
  • Idioma: Anglés
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
  • About the Series
  • Preface: Politics in Motion / Celeste Fraser Delgado
  • Rebellions of Everynight Life / Celeste Fraser Delgado and Jose Esteban Munoz
  • Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies / Jane C. Desmond
  • Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions / Barbara Browning
  • Hip Poetics / Jose Piedra
  • Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens: The National Appropriation of a Gay Tango / Jorge Salessi, Translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado
  • Salsa as Translocation / Mayra Santos Febres
  • Notes toward a Reading of Salsa / Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia, Translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado
  • Una verdadera cronica del Norte: Una noche con la India / Augusto C. Puleo, Translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado
  • I Came, I Saw, I Conga'd: Contexts for a Cuban-American Culture / Gustavo Perez Firmat
  • Caught in the Web: Latinidad, AIDS, and Allegory in Kiss of the Spider Woman, the Musical / David Roman and Albert Sandoval
  • Against Easy Listening: Audiotopic Readings and Transnational Soundings / Josh Kun
  • Of Rhythms and Borders / Ana M. Lopez
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Contributors

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