- Series: Studies In Latin America & Car
- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Temple University Press (November 29, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1439910065
- ISBN-13: 978-1439910061
Since its emergence in the 1960s,
salsa has transformed from a symbol of Nuyorican pride into an emblem of
pan-Latinism and finally a form of global popular culture. While
Latinos all over the world have developed and even exported their own
“dance accents,” local dance scenes have arisen in increasingly
far-flung locations, each with their own flavor and unique features.
Salsa Worldexamines the ways in which bodies relate to culture in specific places. The contributors, a notable group of scholars and practitioners, analyze dance practices in the U.S., Japan, Spain, France, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Writing from the disciplines of ethnomusicology, anthropology, sociology, and performance studies, the contributors explore salsa’s kinetopias - places defined by movement, or vice versa- as they have arisen through the dance’s interaction with local histories, identities, and musical forms.
Salsa Worldexamines the ways in which bodies relate to culture in specific places. The contributors, a notable group of scholars and practitioners, analyze dance practices in the U.S., Japan, Spain, France, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Writing from the disciplines of ethnomusicology, anthropology, sociology, and performance studies, the contributors explore salsa’s kinetopias - places defined by movement, or vice versa- as they have arisen through the dance’s interaction with local histories, identities, and musical forms.
Taken
together, the essays in this book examine contemporary salsa dancing in
all its complexity, taking special note of how it is localized and how
issues of geography, race and ethnicity, and identity interact with the
global salsa industry.
Contributors include Bárbara Balbuena Gutiérrez, Katherine
Borland, Joanna Bosse, Rossy Díaz, Saúl Escalona, Kengo Iwanaga, Isabel
Llano, Jonathan S. Marion, Priscilla Renta, Alejandro Ulloa Sanmiguel,
and the editor.
In the series Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music, edited by Peter Manuel
In the series Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music, edited by Peter Manuel
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