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Dancing mestizo modernisms : choreographing postcolonial and postrevolutionary Mexico /

"Dancing Mestizo Modernisms analyzes how national and international dancers contributed to developing Mexico's cultural politics and notions of the nation at different historical moments. It emphasizes how dancers and other moving bodies resisted and reproduced racial and social hierarchie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reynoso, José Luis (Writer on dance) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Series:Currents in Latin American & Iberian music.
Subjects:
Dance > Mexico > History.
Mexico > Social life and customs.
Danse > Mexique > Histoire.
Dance
Manners and customs
Mexico
Dance.
Performing Arts.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Dancing Mestizo Modernisms
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Dancing Embodied Mestizo Modernisms, Choreographing Transnational Nationalisms
  • 1. Mexico City's Ambivalent Spatial Mestizaje: Bodies in Motion from Independence to Dictatorship
  • 2. Choreographing the Indigenous Body in the Independence Centennial: From Dictatorship to Revolution
  • 3. Embracing the Indigenous while Establishing a Mestizo Nation: Forjando a Revolutionary Patria
  • 4. The Making of a Postrevolutionary Modern Dance Form: Debating National and International Politics and Aesthetics (1930s-​1940)
  • Coda: Contemporary Mestizo Modernisms and Transnational Nationalisms in the United States
  • Bibliography
  • Index.