Dancing across borders
Subtitle: danzas y bailes mexicanos
By: edited by Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero.
Contributors: Nájera-Ramírez, Olga.; Cantú, Norma Elia, 1947-; Romero, Brenda M., 1949-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780252034091; 9780252076091
Subjects: Dance -- Mexico; Dance -- Mexican-American Border Region; Folk dancing, Mexican; Folk dancing, Mexican -- Mexican-American Border Region; Religious dance -- Mexico; Religious dance -- Mexican-American Border Region
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero; title: Embodied recuperations : performance, indigeneity, and danza azteca / Elisa Diana Huerta; title: The Zapopan dancers : reinventing an indigenous line of descent / Angela Renée de la Torre Castellanos; title: La feria de enero : rethinking gender in a ritual festival / Xóchitl C. Chávez; title: Dancing to "Whittier Boulevard" : choreographing social identity / Marie "Keta" Miranda; title: Creating agency and identity in danza azteca / María Teresa Ceseña; title: The semiotics of land and space : matachines dancing in Laredo, Texas / Norma E. Cantú; title: Dancing to the heights : performing Zapotec identity aesthetics and religiosity / Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez; title: Traditional dances of the Sierra Norte of Puebla : identity and gender relations / Alberto Zárate Rosales; title: ¿Por qué estás aquí? : dancing through history, identity, and the politics of place in butoh ritual mexicano / Shakina Nayfack; title: El baile de los elotes / José Sánchez Jiménez; title: The matachines danza as intercultural discourse / Brenda M. Romero; title: The Ballet Folklórico de México and the construction of the Mexican nation through dance / Sydney Hutchinson; title: Dancing culture : a personal perspective on folklórico / Rudy F. García; title: The Mexican danzón : restrained sensuality / Susan Cashion; title: La mujer in choreographic works of Barro Rojo / Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter; title: Staging authenticity : theorizing the development of Mexican folklórico dance / Olga Nájera-Ramírez; title: Dance politics and cultural tourism in Oaxaca's Guelaguetza / Chris Goertzen; title: Bailando para San Lorenzo : Nuevo Mejicano popular traditional musics, ritual, contexts, and dancing during Bernalillo fiesta time / Peter J. Garcia; title: Folklórico dance in the United States : cultural preservation and disillusion / Russell Rodríguez; title: Zapateado Afro-Chicana fandango style : self-reflective moments in zapateado / Martha González; title: Epilogue; title: Selected bibliography on folk, ritual, and social dance in greater Mexico.