1st Edition
Entangled Mobilities in the Transnational Salsa Circuit The Esperanto of the Body, Gender and Ethnicity
By Joanna Menet
Copyright 2020
226 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003002697, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
With attention to the transnational dance world of salsa, this book explores the circulation of people, imaginaries, dance movements, conventions and affects from a transnational... Read more
"Bailamos, Shall we Dance?" An Ethnographic Entry to Salsa
Part I: An Introduction to the Salsa Circuit
1. Studying Salsa
2. The Salsa Circuit
Part II: Negotiating Ethnicity and Gender
3. Negotiating Salsa’s "Latinness"
4. Doing, Redoing and Undoing Gender in Salsa Dancing
Part III: Transnational Careers
5. Becoming a Salsa Dance Professional
6. Accessing the European Salsa Circuit
7. Building Up Reputation
Part IV: Conclusion
Conclusion
Biography
Joanna Menet is a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory for the Study of Social Processes at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
