Everynight life culture and dance in latin/o América editors Celeste Fraser Delgado, José Esteban Muñoz

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About the series -- Preface: politics in motion / Celeste Fraser Delgado -- Rebellions of everynight life / Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz -- Embodying difference: Issues in dance and cultural studies / Jane C. Desmond -- Headspin: Capoeira's ironic inversions / Barbara Browing -- Hip poetics / José Piedra -- Medics, crooks, and tango queens / Jorge Salessi translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado -- Salsa as translocation / Mayra Santos Febres -- Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado -- Un verdadera crónica del Norte: una noche con la India / Augusto C. Puleo translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado -- I came, I saw I Conga'd: contextfor a Cuban- American Culture / Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- Caught in the web: latinidad, AIDS, and allegory in kiss of the spider woman, the musical / David Román and Alberto Sandoval -- Against easy listening: audiotopic reading and transnational soundings / Josh Kun -- Of rhythms and borders / Ana M. López -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors

"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 norteno-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 Jose Piedra explores the meanings conveyed by women of color dancing the rumba"

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