Everynight Life - Culture and Dance in Latin/o America

"Everynight Life" is a major contribution to the ongoing investigation of specific cultural practices heretofore ignored by traditional academic investigation. It will be of specific value to scholars and critics studying issues of performance and performativity as they inform practices of subject-formation in its political, cultural, and sexual dimensions."--Ricardo Ortiz, Dartmouth College

List of contents

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

About the author

Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz, eds.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Delgado
• Assisted by: Celeste F. Delgado (Editor), Celeste Fraser Delgado (Editor), Jose Esteban Munoz (Editor), José Esteban Muñoz (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.1997
• EAN: 9780822319191
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1919-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 626 g
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Tanz, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Folk-Stil, HISTORY / Latin America / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Folk