Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles - Brossura

García, Cindy

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ISBN 10: 0822354977 ISBN 13: 9780822354970

Casa editrice: Duke University Press, 2013

Riassunto

In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives, Cindy García describes how local salseras/os gain social status by performing an exoticized L.A.–style salsa that distances them from club practices associated with Mexicanness. Many Latinos in Los Angeles try to avoid "dancing like a Mexican," attempting to rid their dancing of techniques that might suggest that they are migrants, poor, working-class, Mexican, or undocumented. In L.A. salsa clubs, social belonging and mobility depend on subtleties of technique and movement. With a well-timed dance-floor exit or the lift of a properly tweezed eyebrow, a dancer signals affiliation not only with a distinctive salsa style but also with a particular conceptualization of latinidad.

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L'autore:

Cindy García is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota.

Product Description:

Book by Garciacutea Cindy

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Duke University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0822354977
• ISBN 13: 9780822354970
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208