Garcia Cindy Garcia

Salsa Crossings (eBook, PDF)

Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;dancing like a Mexican,"e; 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822378297
• Artikelnr.: 54786953

Autorenporträt

Cindy García is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

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