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Choreographing Mexico - Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation (Hardcover)
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Choreographing Mexico - Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation (Hardcover)
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The years between 1910 and 1940 were formative for Mexico, with the
ouster of Porfirio Diaz, the subsequent revolution, and the
creation of the new state. Amid the upheaval, Mexican dance emerged
as a key arena of contestation regarding what it meant to be
Mexican. Through an analysis of written, photographic,
choreographic, and cinematographic renderings of a festive Mexico,
Choreographing Mexico examines how bodies in motion both performed
and critiqued the nation. Manuel Cuellar details the integration of
Indigenous and regional dance styles into centennial celebrations,
civic festivals, and popular films. Much of the time, this was a
top-down affair, with cultural elites seeking to legitimate a
hegemonic national character by incorporating traces of
indigeneity. Yet dancers also used their moving bodies to challenge
the official image of a Mexico full of manly vigor and free from
racial and ethnic divisions. At home and abroad, dancers made
nuanced articulations of female, Indigenous, Black, and even queer
renditions of the nation. Cuellar reminds us of the ongoing
political significance of movement and embodied experience, as
folklorico maintains an important and still-contested place in
Mexican and Mexican American identity today.
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