Salsa Crossings
Garcia, Cindy
Salsa Crossings : dancing latinidad in Los Angeles / Cindy Garcia - Durham. : Duke University Press, 2013 - xxv, 182 pages ; 23 cm. - Latin America otherwise. .
The salsa wars --
Dancing salsa wrong --
Un/sequined corporealities --
Circulations of gender and power --
"Don't leave me, Celia!" salsera homosociality and Latina corporealities.
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
9780822354970
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Arts
Sports, games & entertainment
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Salsa
Salsa (Dance) -- California -- Los Angeles.
Salsa (Dance) -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California
California -- Los Angeles.
793.330 GRA
Salsa Crossings : dancing latinidad in Los Angeles / Cindy Garcia - Durham. : Duke University Press, 2013 - xxv, 182 pages ; 23 cm. - Latin America otherwise. .
The salsa wars --
Dancing salsa wrong --
Un/sequined corporealities --
Circulations of gender and power --
"Don't leave me, Celia!" salsera homosociality and Latina corporealities.
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
9780822354970
Amazon India
Arts
Sports, games & entertainment
Indoor games & amusements
Salsa
Salsa (Dance) -- California -- Los Angeles.
Salsa (Dance) -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California
California -- Los Angeles.
793.330 GRA
