Overview
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
Full Product Details
Author: Celeste Fraser Delgado ,
José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 22.90cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 15.20cm
Weight: 0.853kg
ISBN: 9780822319269
ISBN 10: 0822319268
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 18 June 1997
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Everynight Life, a collection of papers presented at the conference Politics in Motion ... is an attempt to deal with a wide number of issues related to dance as the privileged site in the production of cultural identities ... Most articles question simplistic polarities and explore the complexities of translation and translocation ... [the essays] question our stereotypes of nations and borders, and the notion of the Latinidad. --Times Literary Supplement, January 7, 2000 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 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
Everynight Life, a collection of papers presented at the conference Politics in Motion ... is an attempt to deal with a wide number of issues related to dance as the privileged site in the production of cultural identities ... Most articles question simplistic polarities and explore the complexities of translation and translocation ... [the essays] question our stereotypes of nations and borders, and the notion of the Latinidad. --Times Literary Supplement, January 7, 2000 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 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 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
Author 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.
