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Spinning Mambo into Salsa - Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce (Hardcover)
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Spinning Mambo into Salsa - Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce (Hardcover)
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Arguably the world's most popular partnered social dance form,
salsa's significance extends well beyond the Latino communities
which gave birth to it. The growing international and
cross-cultural appeal of this Latin dance form, which celebrates
its mixed origins in the Caribbean and in Spanish Harlem, offers a
rich site for examining issues of cultural hybridity and
commodification in the context of global migration. Salsa consists
of countless dance dialects enjoyed by varied communities in
different locales. In short, there is not one dance called salsa,
but many. Spinning Mambo into Salsa, a history of salsa dance,
focuses on its evolution in three major hubs for international
commercial export-New York, Los Angeles, and Miami. The book
examines how commercialized salsa dance in the 1990s departed from
earlier practices of Latin dance, especially 1950s mambo. Topics
covered include generational differences between Palladium Era
mambo and modern salsa; mid-century antecedents to modern salsa in
Cuba and Puerto Rico; tension between salsa as commercial vs.
cultural practice; regional differences in New York, Los Angeles,
and Miami; the role of the Web in salsa commerce; and adaptations
of social Latin dance for stage performance. Throughout the book,
salsa dance history is linked to histories of salsa music, exposing
how increased separation of the dance from its musical inspiration
has precipitated major shifts in Latin dance practice. As a whole,
the book dispels the belief that one version is more authentic than
another by showing how competing styles came into existence and
contention. Based on over 100 oral history interviews, archival
research, ethnographic participant observation, and analysis of Web
content and commerce, the book is rich with quotes from
practitioners and detailed movement description.
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