Salsa Crossings : Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles (Latin America Otherwise)

García, Cindy

Duke University Press（2013/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822354970
• DDC分類 793.330979494

Full Description

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.

Contents

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