From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081652632X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Good book Amazon Customer Great information on the quebradita I like the way (this book) it's written. It helped me understand better the impact this dance has on both Mexicans and Americans. HOrdover said From genius to brilliance. This book is fun! And interesting!Shocking how fast a dance can travel.If you like music and dance, you'll love this book.. "good methods, cultura studies read for undergraduates" according to lanegra. Great book. It was definitely well written. Liked the ethnographic description of dance with lots of references to movement in its physical and metaphorical senses. The author's expertise a dancer made the book even more rich in description. The authenticity and illustration of the multiple layers and meanings of "insider" knowledge are appealing to students as is the the e
The closerlook at cultural and social processesthat Hutchinson offers draws us into thedeeper vectors that come to bear onthe creation and practice of the danceand the broader and subtle meaningsthat the dance expresses.”—Daniel E. Sheehy, SmithsonianInstitution. “The quebradita story is rich in issuesof cultural differences across MexicanAmerican and Mexican culturalsubgroups based on nationality, region,generation, and gender
Over the decade of its popularity, this dance craze offered insights into the social and cultural experience of Mexican American youth. Recent media attention is helping other Caribbean music styles like bachata to attain a similar status. Her fieldwork and interviews yield rich personal testimony as to the inner workings of the quebradita’s aesthetic development and social significance. Accompanied by banda, an energetic brass band music style, quebradita is recognizable by its western clothing, hat tricks, and daring flips. context.. Hutchinson argues that, though short-lived, the dance filled political and sociocultural functions, emerging as it did in response to the anti-immigrant and English-only legislation that was then being enacted in California. Salsa and merengue are now so popular that they are household words for Americans of all ethnic backgrounds. Quebradita, meaning “little break,” is a modern Mexican American dance style that became hugely popular in Los Angeles and across the southwestern United States during the early to mid 1990s. Like the quebradita before it, pasito duranguense has picked up the task of demonstrating the relevance of regional Mexican music and dance within the U.S. The emergence of pasito duranguense, a related yet distinct style originating in Chicago, marks the evolution of the Mexican American youth dance scene. Yet popular Mexican Ameri