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Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America is a collection of essays that analyze different manifestations of Argentine music and dance taking advantage of the exciting new theoretical developments advanced by the current affective turn. Contributors deal with the relationship between music, dance, affects, feelings, and emotions in different scenarios and show how the embodiment of music shape the experiential in ways that may impact upon but nevertheless many times evade conscious knowing. This book is one of the first academic attempts (regardless of region or country of scope) to try to solve some of the most important problems the affective turn has identified regarding how music and dance have been researched so far, such as the tendency, in representational accounts of music, to ignore the sensory and sonic registers to the detriment of the embodied and lived registers of experience and feeling that unfold in the process of making or listening to music.

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Author:   Pablo Vila ,  Adriana Cerletti ,  Silvia Citro ,  Carlos Molinero
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9781498536943

ISBN 10:   1498536948
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   14 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Pablo Vila Chapter One: Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions: Where We Are Now. Pablo Vila Chapter Two: The Embodiment of Gozo.: Aesthetic, Emotion and Politics in the Indigenous Song-dances of the Argentine Chaco Silvia Citro and Adriana Cerletti Chapter Three: Traditional Sonorous Poetics. Ways of Appropriation and Perception of “Andean” Music and Practices in Buenos Aires. Adil Podhajcer Chapter Four: Pleasures in Conflict: Maternity, Eroticism, and Sexuality in Tango Dancing Juliana Verdenelli, Translated by Elliot Prussing Chapter Five: Self-Expression Through Self-Discipline. Technique, Expression, and Losing Oneself in Classical Dance Ana Sabrina Mora, Translated by Elliot Prussing Chapter Six: Did Cumbia Villera Bother Us? Criticisms on the Academic Common Sense Representation of the Link Between Women and Music Malvina Silba and Carolina Spataro, Translated by Federico Álvarez Gandolfi Chapter Seven: Peronism and Communism, Feelings and Songs: Militant Affects in Two Versions of the Political Song in Argentina Carlos Molinero and Pablo Vila Chapter Eight: Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions: Where We Can Be Pablo Vila About the Contributors

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This book's extended theoretical exploration illuminates the complex ways that music acts on bodies to evoke feelings and identities, while the case studies exemplify these processes across a variety of Latin American genres. This is a pioneering contribution to the study of affect in music. -- Nancy Morris, Temple University Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America innovates by placing emphasis on how music and dance mobilize affect- something made evident in the expression `groove to the music'- while at the same time detailing the complex set of factors (social conditions, identity constituents, etc.) that mediate musical representations and corporeal affects and emotions. -- George Yudice, University of Miami For the humanities and humanistic social sciences, the affective turn forcefully compels a return to bodies in their multifarious relations-with themselves, other bodies, places, communities, with things of all kinds, and much more. This remarkable volume makes another, and most audacious, turn: South. Incisive essays show the rich complexities of how affect and emotions animate musicking (making, listening, dancing) in the specificity of Latin America locations. In a stunning demonstration of post-constructionism, we experience affect and emotions as living correlates of meaning and as a dynamic force for the evasive but inescapable subsistence of identities and subjectivities. -- Jairo A. Moreno, University of Pennsylvania

This book's extended theoretical exploration illuminates the complex ways that music acts on bodies to evoke feelings and identities, while the case studies exemplify these processes across a variety of Latin American genres. This is a pioneering contribution to the study of affect in music. -- Nancy Morris, Temple University Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America innovates by placing emphasis on how music and dance mobilize affect— something made evident in the expression ‘groove to the music’— while at the same time detailing the complex set of factors (social conditions, identity constituents, etc.) that mediate musical representations and corporeal affects and emotions. -- George Yúdice, University of Miami For the humanities and humanistic social sciences, the affective turn forcefully compels a return to bodies in their multifarious relations—with themselves, other bodies, places, communities, with things of all kinds, and much more. This remarkable volume makes another, and most audacious, turn: South. Incisive essays show the rich complexities of how affect and emotions animate musicking (making, listening, dancing) in the specificity of Latin America locations. In a stunning demonstration of post-constructionism, we experience affect and emotions as living correlates of meaning and as a dynamic force for the evasive but inescapable subsistence of identities and subjectivities. -- Jairo A. Moreno, University of Pennsylvania

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Pablo Vila is professor of sociology at Temple University.

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