Dancing Across Borders: Danzas Y Bailes Mexicanos

By Aubry Andrews

Book Overview

Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos focuses specifically on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The essays explore various types of Mexican popular and traditional dances and address questions of authenticity, aesthetics, identity, interpretation, and research methodologies in dance performance. Contributors include not only noted scholars from a variety of disciplines but also several dance practitioners who reflect on their engagement with dance and reveal subtexts of dance culture. Capturing dance as a living expression, the volume's ethnographic approach highlights the importance of the cultural and social contexts in which dances are practiced.

Contributors are Norma E. Cant?, Susan Cashion, Mar?a Teresa Cese?a, X?chitl C. Ch?vez, Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez, Ren?e de la Torre Castellanos, Peter J. Garc?a, Rudy F. Garc?a, Chris Goertzen, Martha Gonz?lez, Elisa Diana Huerta, Sydney Hutchinson, Marie "Keta" Miranda, Olga N?jera-Ram?rez, Shakina Nayfack, Russell Rodr?guez, Brenda M. Romero, Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter, Jos? S?nchez Jim?nez, and Alberto Z?rate Rosales.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076095
• ISBN13: 9780252076091
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"