- We will send in 10–14 business days.
/images/books/4464516/9780822354819.jpg)
- Author: Cindy GarcÃa
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- ISBN-10: 0822354810
- ISBN-13: 9780822354819
- Format: 15.5 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
- SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA
Reviews
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 GarcÃa 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.
EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
The promotion ends in 9d.16:56:21
The discount code is valid when purchasing from 10 €. Discounts do not stack.
- Author: Cindy GarcÃa
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- ISBN-10: 0822354810
- ISBN-13: 9780822354819
- Format: 15.5 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
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 GarcÃa 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.
Reviews