Salsa and Its Transnational Moves

Sheenagh Pietrobruno

doi:10.5771/9780739160589

Summary

Salsa and Its Transnational Moves presents a brilliant critical analysis of salsa dancing in a major North American city. Drawing from a vast number of disciplines, author Sheenagh Pietrobruno focuses on the tension between the status of dance as a bodily expression of identity and its function as a cultural commodity within the economic life of modern day cities. This engaging work investigates the transnational movements of salsa by exploring the circulation of salsa within the Montreal dance scene, nourished by the continuous flow of a people, and examining the commodification of the Latino culture. Pietrobruno's analysis is singular in highlighting how the migration of a people and a dance represent displacements that are not always homologous. At the core of this work, Pietrobruno offers an extensive and intricate ethnography of the institutions and individuals involved in shaping the Montreal salsa scene that will appeal to academics and general audiences alike, who are interested in the study of anthropology, popular music, dance, gender, ethnicity, and culture.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2006
Copyright Year: 2006
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-1468-1
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-6058-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 243
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction Toward the Global No access Pages 1 - 30
Chapter 1 Beyond Caribbean Roots No access Pages 31 - 72
Chapter 2 Transnational Identities and Multicultural Connections No access Pages 73 - 110
Chapter 3 Staking Claims No access Pages 111 - 144
Chapter 4 The Couple in Dance No access Pages 145 - 162
Chapter 5 Commodifying the Gendered Embrace No access Pages 163 - 202
Conclusion Virtual Migrations No access Pages 203 - 220
References No access Pages 221 - 242
About the Author No access Pages 243 - 243