Everynight Life Culture and Dance in Latin/O America
- List Price: $107.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/1997
This anthology looks at many modes of dance -- including salsa, merengue, cumbia, rumba, mambo, tango, samba, and norteno -- as models for the interplay of cultural memory and regional conflict. Barbara Browning's essay on capoeira, for instance, demonstrates how dance has been used as a literal form of resistance, while Jose Piedra explores the meanings conveyed by women of color dancing the rumba. Pieces such as Gustavo Perez Firmat's "I Came, I Saw, I Conga'd" and Jorge Salessi's "Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens" illustrate the lively scope of this volume's subject matter. Everynight Life will interest students and scholars of Latin American, performance, and cultural studies.