National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance (Dialogos) - Tapa blanda

Chasteen, John Charles

 
9780826329417: National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance (Dialogos)

Sinopsis

When John Charles Chasteen learned that Simon Bolivar, the Liberator, danced on a banquet table to celebrate Latin American independence in 1824, he tried to visualise the scene. How, he wondered, did the Liberator dance? Did he bounce stiffly in his dress uniform? Or did he move his hips? In other words, how high had African dance influences reached in Latin American societies? A vast social gap separated Bolivar from people of African descent; however, Chasteen's research shows that popular culture could bridge the gap. Fast-paced and often funny, this book explores the history of Latin American popular dance before the twentieth century. Chasteen first focuses on Havana, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro, where dances featuring a 'transgressive close embrace' (forerunners of today's salsa, tango, and samba) emerged by 1900. Then, digging deeper in time, Chasteen uncovers the historical experiences that moulded Latin American popular dance, including carnival celebrations, the social lives of slaves, European fashions, and, oddly enough, religious processions. The relationship between Latin American dance and nationalism, it turns out, is very deep, indeed.

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Acerca del autor

John Charles Chasteen is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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John Chasteen examines the history behind sexually suggestive dances (salsa, samba, and tango) that brought people of different social classes and races together in Latin America.

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9780826329400: National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance (Dialogos)

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ISBN 10:  0826329403 ISBN 13:  9780826329400
Editorial: University of New Mexico Press, 2004
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