Description
Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos focuses specifically on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The essays explore various types of Mexican popular and traditional dances and address questions of authenticity, aesthetics, identity, interpretation, and research methodologies in dance performance. Contributors include not only noted scholars from a variety of disciplines but also several dance practitioners who reflect on their engagement with dance and reveal subtexts of dance culture. Capturing dance as a living expression, the volume's ethnographic approach highlights the importance of the cultural and social contexts in which dances are practiced.
The first anthology to focus on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the border
About the Author
Olga NAjera-RamIrez is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Norma E. CantU is a professor of English at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Brenda M. Romero is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Reviews
"This stimulating collection expands our understanding of Mexican dance's significance by employing dance as a prism through which to view broader sociocultural issues and meaning. It sets a new standard for anthropological dance studies far beyond its U.S.-Mexico focus."--Daniel Sheehy, author of Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
Book Information
ISBN 9780252076091
Author Olga Najera-Ramirez
Format Paperback
Page Count 472
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Weight(grams) 626g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm
Contributors are Norma E. CantU, Susan Cashion, MarIa Teresa CeseNa, XOchitl C. ChAvez, Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez, RenEe de la Torre Castellanos, Peter J. GarcIa, Rudy F. GarcIa, Chris Goertzen, Martha GonzAlez, Elisa Diana Huerta, Sydney Hutchinson, Marie "Keta" Miranda, Olga NAjera-RamIrez, Shakina Nayfack, Russell RodrIguez, Brenda M. Romero, Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter, JosE SAnchez JimEnez, and Alberto ZArate Rosales.
The first anthology to focus on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the border
About the Author
Olga NAjera-RamIrez is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Norma E. CantU is a professor of English at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Brenda M. Romero is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Reviews
"This stimulating collection expands our understanding of Mexican dance's significance by employing dance as a prism through which to view broader sociocultural issues and meaning. It sets a new standard for anthropological dance studies far beyond its U.S.-Mexico focus."--Daniel Sheehy, author of Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
Book Information
ISBN 9780252076091
Author Olga Najera-Ramirez
Format Paperback
Page Count 472
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Weight(grams) 626g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm
