TY  - GEN
T1  - Danzón days : age, race, and romance in Mexico
T2  - Music in American life.
A1  - Malcomson, Hettie
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1350966282
AB  - "Dancer and organizer Margarita Castro Olvera provides a focal point for an ethnography of danzón in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated with the music-dance genre. Hettie Malcomson draws upon on-site research among semi-professional musicians and amateur dancers like Olvera to reveal how danzón connects, and does not connect, to Blackness, joyousness, nostalgia, ageing, and romance. Challenging pervasive utopian views of danzón, Malcomson uses the idea of ambivalence to explore the frictions and opportunities created by seemingly contrary sentiments, ideas, sensations, and impulses. Her account takes readers into Black and mestizo elements of local identity in Veracruz, nostalgic and newer styles of music and dance, and the friendships, romances, and rivalries among the older women at the heart of regular danzón performance and its complex social world. Fine-grained and evocative, Danzón Days journeys to one of the genre's essential cities to provide new perspectives on aging and romance and new explorations of nostalgia and ambivalence"--
OP  - 258
CN  - GV1796.D36 M35 2023
SN  - 9780252054273
SN  - 025205427X
SN  - 9780252045004
SN  - 9780252087134
KW  - Danzón (Dance) : Social aspects : Mexico : Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave)
KW  - Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico) : Social life and customs : 21st century.
KW  - Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico) : Race relations.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / General
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Mexico : Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave)
KW  - Dance.
KW  - Performing Arts.
KW  - 2000-2099
ER  -