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  title info:
    title: Aztec music and dance in California
  name:
    name part: Nielsen, Kristina F.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "A powerful expression of Indigenous and Mexican identity, Aztec dance has become a part of Mexican and Mexican American cultural life across North America. Kristina F. Nielsen examines California's Aztec dance communities to illuminate how the dancers interpret authenticity, tradition, history, and Indigenous and national identities through their music and dance practices. Merging history with on-the-ground interviews, Nielsen looks at the different approaches to Aztec dance. Some dancers maintain practices as they have been passed down through lineages of hybrid Indigenous and Catholic practices. Others strive to restore traditions to what they believe they were in the early 1500s. Nielsen's analysis examines Mexican and Mexican American understandings of Indigenous histories that inform these decisions by Aztec dancers, and considers the ways they intersect with decolonization in the United States. Enlightening and rigorous, Aztec Music and Dance in California takes readers into the dynamic world of an ever-evolving art form"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Aztec dance, indigeneity, and the search for authenticity -- The colonial roots of Nahua culture as national culture -- Aztec dance and Amalia Hernández's Ballet Folklórico -- Mexikayotl and reclamation movements -- Mexicanidad, Aztec dance, and formative interactions with Native American communities in the US -- Approaches to music (re)clamation -- Interpreting the subversive histories of Aztec music and dance -- Native American culture in Aztec dance and indigenous Mexican cultural relations -- "What's in your heart": Identity, nostalgia, and decolonization.
  note: Kristina F. Nielsen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ca
  subject:
    topic: Aztec dance
    geographic: California
  subject:
    topic: Aztecs
    genre: Music
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    geographic: California
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    geographic: California
    topic: Ethnic identity
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    geographic: California
    topic: Music
  subject:
    topic: Danses aztèques
    geographic: Californie
  subject:
    topic: Aztèques
    genre: Musique
  subject:
    topic: Américains d'origine mexicaine
    topic: Identité ethnique
    geographic: Californie
  classification: F1219.76.D35 N54 2026
  classification: 793.319794
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    title info:
      title: Aztec music and dance in California
    name:
      name part: Nielsen, Kristina F.
    origin info:
      publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2026
    identifier: (DLC) 2025027249
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  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250912
    record change date: 20260330150132.2
    record identifier: in00005777158
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng