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  title info:
    title: We dance for the Virgen
    sub title: authenticity of tradition in a San Antonio matachines troupe
  name:
    name part: Botello, Robert R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Biesele, Megan
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 224 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The danza de matachines is a tradition with roots in the Spanish colonization of Mexico that summons history for Mexican, Chicano and indigenous communities. The elaborate ritual, regalia and practices associated with the tradition tell of the repeated appearances of Our Lady of Guadalupe to the Aztec Indian Juan Diego as she provided instructions for the building of a church. Matachines have been dancing in Mexico and portions of the southwestern United States for as long as 300 years, and various troupes in San Antonio date their beginnings to the late 1800s, as immigrants from Mexico brought the tradition to the southern reaches of Texas. In We Dance for the Virgen, Robert R. Botello, who participated in a family-based troupe from 2006 to 2019, reviews the history of the tradition while contrasting the troupe's internal changes in traditions with those originating from the larger social and political context of San Antonio. In Botello's words, this book 'is as much about the dance and its history as it is about my transformation as a matachines dancer.' Botello ultimately examines issues of cultural appropriation arising from the association of the troupe with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio, revealing the resilience in a tradition that has remained true to its origins across many generations of dancers.
  table of contents: Introduction: Encountering the Dance -- Histories Intertwined: Colonial Mexico, La Virgen, and San Antonio -- The Dance: What Happens and Why -- Life History of the Danza: A Continuity -- Memoir of a Monarca -- Culmination of Authenticity: Seeing the Dance through Experienced Eyes -- Autonomy and Devotion: Twin Pillars Supporting Continuity -- Appropriation of the Pilgrimage: A Catholic Priest Dances around the Details -- Anatomy of an Appropriated Pilgrimage -- Conclusion: The Interplay of Change and Continuity in a Danza de Matachines -- Troupe.
  note: Robert R. Botello ; foreword by Megan Biesele.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Botello, Robert R
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Our Lady of Guadalupe Church (San Antonio, Tex.)
  subject:
    topic: Matachines (Dance)
  subject:
    topic: Religious dance
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: San Antonio
  subject:
    topic: Folk dancing, Mexican
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: San Antonio
  subject:
    topic: Guadalupe, Our Lady of
    topic: Cult
  subject:
    topic: Folk dancers
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: San Antonio
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: San Antonio (Tex.)
    topic: Social life and customs
  classification: GV1796.M35 B57 2022
  classification: 793.3/19764351
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; no. 19
  identifier: 9781648430473
  identifier: 1648430473
  identifier: 9781648430480
  identifier: 2021055928
  record info:
    record content source: TXA/DLC
    record creation date: 211115
    record change date: 20221003210013.5
    record identifier: in00004594280
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng