Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Nájera-Ramírez, Olga.
2. Cantú, Norma E., 1947-
3. Romero, Brenda M., 1949-

Description

1. xxiii, 445 p. : ill., music; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Dance > Mexico
2. Dance > Mexican-American Border Region
3. Folk dancing, Mexican
4. Folk dancing, Mexican > Mexican-American Border Region
5. Religious dance > Mexico
6. Religious dance > Mexican-American Border Region

Contents

1. Embodied recuperations : performance, indigeneity, and danza Azteca / Elisa Diana Huerta -- The Zapopan dancers : reinventing an indigenous line of descent / Renée de la Torre Castellanos -- La feria de enero : rethinking gender in a ritual festival / Xóchitl C. Chávez -- Dancing to "Whittier Boulevard" : choreographing social identity / Marie "Keta" Miranda -- Creating agency and identity in danza Azteca / María Teresa Ceseña -- The semiotics of land and place : matachines dancing in Laredo, Texas / Norma E. Cantú -- Dancing to the heights : performing Zapotec identity, aesthetics, and religiosity / Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez -- Traditional dances of the Sierra Norte of Puebla : identity and gender relations / Alberto Zárate Rosales -- ¿Por qué estás aquí? : dancing through history, identity, and the politics of place in Butoh ritual mexicano / Shakina Nayfack -- El baile de los elotes : the corn dance / José Sánchez Jiménez -- The matachines danza as intercultural discourse / Brenda M. Romero -- The Ballet Folklórico de México and the construction of the Mexican nation through dance / Sydney Hutchinson -- Dancing culture : a personal perspective on folklórico / Rudy F. García -- The Mexican danzón : restrained sensuality / Susan Cashion -- Gender as a theme in the modern dance choreography of Barro Rojo / Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter -- Staging authenticity : theorizing the development of Mexican folklórico dance / Olga Nájera-Ramírez -- Dance, politics, and cultural tourism in Oaxaca's Guelaguetza / Chris Goertzen -- Bailando para San Lorenzo : Nuevo Mexicano popular traditional musics, ritual contexts, and dancing during Bernalillo fiesta time / Peter J. García -- Folklórico in the United States : cultural preservation and disillusion / Russell Rodríguez -- Zapateado Afro-Chicana fandango style : self-reflective moments in zapateado / Martha González.

Call number

1. *MGS (Mexican) 09-7783

Note

1. "Selected bibliography on folk, ritual, and social dance in Greater Mexico": p. [383]-401.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-429) and index.

Title

1. Dancing across borders : danzas y bailes Mexicanos / edited by Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero.

Imprint

1. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-429) and index.

Added author

1. Nájera-Ramírez, Olga.
2. Cantú, Norma E., 1947-
3. Romero, Brenda M., 1949-

LCCN

1. 2008036540

ISBN

1. 9780252034091 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0252034090 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780252076091 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0252076095 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. *MGS (Mexican) 09-7783