Salsa Crossings is popular PDF and ePub book, written by Cindy García in 2013-06-18, it is a fantastic choice for those who relish reading online the Social Science genre. Let's immerse ourselves in this engaging Social Science book by exploring the summary and details provided below. Remember, Salsa Crossings can be Read Online from any device for your convenience.
Salsa Crossings Book PDF Summary
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.
Detail Book of Salsa Crossings PDF
- Author : Cindy García
- Release : 18 June 2013
- Publisher : Duke University Press
- ISBN : 9780822378297
- Genre : Social Science
- Total Page : 308 pages
- Language : English
- PDF File Size : 11,7 Mb
If you're still pondering over how to secure a PDF or EPUB version of the book Salsa Crossings by Cindy García, don't worry! All you have to do is click the 'Get Book' buttons below to kick off your Download or Read Online journey. Just a friendly reminder: we don't upload or host the files ourselves.