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

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Information

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Year

1997

ISBN

9780822396673

Topic

History

Subtopic

Latin American & Caribbean History

Index

History

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