Danzon Days - Age, Race, and Romance in Mexico (Hardcover)

Older people negotiating dance routines, intimacy, and racialized differences provide a focal point for an ethnography of danzon in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated with the music-dance genre. Hettie Malcomson draws upon on-site research with semi-professional musicians and amateur dancers to reveal how danzon connects, and does not connect, to blackness, joyousness, nostalgia, ageing, and romance. Challenging pervasive utopian views of danzon, Malcomson uses the idea of ambivalence to explore the frictions and opportunities created by seemingly contrary sentiments, ideas, sensations, and impulses. Interspersed with experimental ethnographic vignettes, her account takes readers into black and mestizo elements of local identity in Veracruz, nostalgic and newer styles of music and dance, and the friendships, romances, and rivalries at the heart of regular danzon performance and its complex social world. Fine-grained and evocative, Danzon Days journeys to one of the genre's essential cities to provide new perspectives on aging and romance and new explorations of nostalgia and ambivalence.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Music in American Life
Release date:	May 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Hettie Malcomson
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-04500-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	0-252-04500-9
Barcode:	9780252045004

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