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Exotica, ethnicity, and embodiment: An ethnography of Latin dance in United States popular culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Exotica, ethnicity, and embodiment: An ethnography of Latin dance in United States popular culture./
Author:	Bosse, Joanna Lynn.
Description:	354 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1166.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
Subject:	Music. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3130884
ISBN:	0496781327

Exotica, ethnicity, and embodiment: An ethnography of Latin dance in United States popular culture.
Bosse, Joanna Lynn.

Exotica, ethnicity, and embodiment: An ethnography of Latin dance in United States popular culture. - 354 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1166.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.

This work is an ethnographic study of couple dancers living in the Midwest United States, and examines the popularity of Latin American couple dance genres among non-Latin, middle class Americans. It focuses on ballroom dancers in their emerging relationship with Latin American salsa dancers during a period of increased cross-cultural contact in local dance clubs. As such, prevailing notions of ethnicity and their influence on subjectivity and identity construction form the central themes of this work. For the White Americans featured in this study, college graduates living near and working on the local university campus and who have historically operated from the unmarked position of racial privilege, the increase in ethnic consciousness and multiculturalist rhetoric during the 1980s and 1990s engendered feelings of anxiety about their own ethnic identification. The performance of Latin American dance and music was one strategy for working through this anxiety as dancers hoped to internalize the qualities they perceived to be inherent in Latin American ethnicity, engaging the body and imagination in the construction of a new identity through the performance of essentialist racial stereotypes. Comparing historical case studies of the tango and rumba to the contemporary case of salsa, the work traces the stylistic transformation of dance that has resulted from this particular type of cross-cultural borrowing, and grounds this discussion in the larger phenomenon of Latin American exotica.

ISBN: 0496781327Subjects--Topical Terms:

516178
Music.

Exotica, ethnicity, and embodiment: An ethnography of Latin dance in United States popular culture.
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