Salsa crossings : dancing latinidad in Los Angeles

著者

    • Garcia, Cindy

書誌事項

Salsa crossings : dancing latinidad in Los Angeles

Cindy García

(Latin America otherwise)

Duke University Press, 2013

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-175) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780822354819

内容説明

In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives, Cindy Garcia describes how local salseras/os gain social status by performing an exoticized L.A.-style salsa that distances them from club practices associated with Mexicanness. Many Latinos in Los Angeles try to avoid "dancing like a Mexican," attempting to rid their dancing of techniques that might suggest that they are migrants, poor, working-class, Mexican, or undocumented. In L.A. salsa clubs, social belonging and mobility depend on subtleties of technique and movement. With a well-timed dance-floor exit or the lift of a properly tweezed eyebrow, a dancer signals affiliation not only with a distinctive salsa style but also with a particular conceptualization of latinidad.

目次

About the Series ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: Salsa's Lopsided Global Flow 1 1. The Salsa Wars 21 2. Dancing Salsa Wrong 43 3. Un/Sequined Corporealities 66 4. Circulations of Gender and Power 94 5. "Don't Leave Me, Celia!": Salsera Homosociality and Latina Corporealities 124 Conclusion 147 Notes 155 References 165 Index 177
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780822354970

内容説明

In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives, Cindy García describes how local salseras/os gain social status by performing an exoticized L.A.–style salsa that distances them from club practices associated with Mexicanness. Many Latinos in Los Angeles try to avoid "dancing like a Mexican," attempting to rid their dancing of techniques that might suggest that they are migrants, poor, working-class, Mexican, or undocumented. In L.A. salsa clubs, social belonging and mobility depend on subtleties of technique and movement. With a well-timed dance-floor exit or the lift of a properly tweezed eyebrow, a dancer signals affiliation not only with a distinctive salsa style but also with a particular conceptualization of latinidad.

目次

About the Series ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: Salsa's Lopsided Global Flow 1 1. The Salsa Wars 21 2. Dancing Salsa Wrong 43 3. Un/Sequined Corporealities 66 4. Circulations of Gender and Power 94 5. "Don't Leave Me, Celia!": Salsera Homosociality and Latina Corporealities 124 Conclusion 147 Notes 155 References 165 Index 177

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