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Everynight Life A book in the series Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations Series editors: Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University Irene Silverblatt, Duke University Sonia Saldivar-Hull, University of California at Los Angeles © 1997 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 00 Typeset in Palatino with Gill Sans display by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Everynight life: culture and dance in Latini 0 America I edited by Celeste Fraser Delgado and Jose Esteban Munoz. p. em. - (Latin America otherwise) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8223-1926-8 (cloth: alk. paper). - ISBN 0-8223-1919-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Dance-Latin America-History. 2. Dance-Latin America Sociological aspects. 3. Dance-Political aspects-Latin America. l. Delgado, Celeste Fraser. II. Munoz, Jose Esteban. III. Series. GV1626.E84 1997 CIP Para Ramon Torres Seguimos trazando los pasos que tu bailaste en este mundo. We are still tracing the steps you danced in this world. Contents About the Series ix Preface: Politics in Motion Celeste Fraser Delgado 3 Rebellions of Everynight Life Celeste Fraser Delgado and Jose Esteban Munoz 9 Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies Jane C. Desmond 33 Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions Barbara Browning 65 Hip Poetics Jose Piedra 93 Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens: The National Appropriation of a Gay Tango Jorge Salessi Translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado 141 Salsa as Translocation Mayra Santos Febres 175 Notes toward a Reading of Salsa Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia Translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado 189 Una verdadera cronica del Norte: Una noche con la India Augusto C. Puleo Translated by Celeste Fraser Delgado 223 I Came, I Saw, I Conga'd: Contexts for a Cuban-American Culture Gustavo Perez Firmat 239 Caught in the Web: Latinidad, AIDS, and Allegory in Kiss of the Spider Woman, the Musical David Roman and Alberto Sandoval 255 Against Easy Listening: Audiotopic Readings and Transnational Soundings JoshKun 288 Contents Of Rhythms and Borders AnaM. L6pez 310 Bibliography 345 Index 359 Contributors 365 viii About the Series Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations is a critical series. It aims to explore the emergence and consequences of concepts used to define "Latin America" while at the same time exploring the broad inter play of political, economic, and cultural practices that have shaped Latin American worlds. Latin America, at the crossroads of competing impe rial designs and local responses, has been construed as a geocultural and geopolitical entity since the nineteenth century. This series provides a starting point to redefine Latin America as a configuration of political, linguistic, cultural, and economic intersections that demand a contin uous reappraisal of the role of the Americas in history, and of the ongo ing process of globalization and the relocation of people and cultures that have characterized Latin America's experience. Latin America Other wise: Languages, Empires, Nations is a forum that confronts established geocultural constructions, that rethinks area studies and disciplinary boundaries, that assesses convictions of the academy and of public policy, and that, correspondingly, demands that the practices through which we produce knowledge and understanding, about and from Latin America be subject to rigorous and critical scrutiny. Everynight Life is a collection of critical pieces that makes us rethink "Latin America," disciplinary boundaries, and methodologies. The tra ditional "Latin America" -the essentialized entity of imperial origin-is replaced with a dynamic view from Latin America. "Latin America" be comes a field of geopolitical, cultural, and economic relations that span the globe and whose transformations in history continuously redefine the configuration of the Americas. Latin America is in Europe; Latin America is in the United States. Everynight Life is a foray into the "politics of location." The contributors to this volume construct dialogues: between world wide forces and regional configurations; between processes re-imagining (Latin) America and the local experiences that gave rise to them-at the North Carolina conference that attracted musicians, dancers, scholars, and students hom Guatemala, Peru, the Caribbean, Miami, Cleveland, and other places in America; and above all between the coloniallega cies that engendered the Latino/as communities in the United States,
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