Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America

Published by Duke University Press 1997

Everynight Life

Culture and Dance in Latin/o America

Edited by: Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz

In the series Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822396673

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“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

“This is an exciting and an important book, just the kind of contribution that many of us have been eager to find. It weaves politics with popular culture, national borders with rhythm. In short it’s up-to-date in terms of intellectual issues, and sensitively down-to-earth in ways that make practical sense.”—Doris Sommer, Harvard University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
About the Series Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface: Politics in Motion Celeste Fraser Delgado Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Rebellions of Everynight Life Celeste Fraser Delgado and Jose Esteban Munoz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies Jane C. Desmond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions Barbara Browning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Hip Poetics Jose Piedra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens: The National Appropriation of a Gay Tango Jorge Salessi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Salsa as Translocation Mayra Santos Febres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Notes toward a Reading of Salsa Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Una verdadera cronica del Norte: Una noche con la India Augusto C. Puleo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
I Came, I Saw, I Conga'd: Contexts for a Cuban-American Culture Gustavo Perez Firmat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Caught in the Web: Latinidad, AIDS, and Allegory in Kiss of the Spider Woman, the Musical David Roman and Alberto Sandoval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Against Easy Listening: Audiotopic Readings and Transnational Soundings Josh Kun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Of Rhythms and Borders Ana M. Lopez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 376
Illustrations
- Other: 18 b&w photographs

eBook

Published: June 18, 1997
ISBN: 9780822396673