Sydney Hutchinson: Salsa World

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>How an understanding of salsa dancing enhances our appreciation of salsa's global reach and meanings<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439910061&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="2267_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Salsa World</h1> <H2>A Global Dance in Local Contexts</H2> <h3>edited by Sydney Hutchinson</h3> <P>cloth 1-4399-1006-5 $90.50, Nov 13, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-4399-1007-3 $29.95, Jul 15, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-4399-1008-1 $29.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 240 pp 6x9 2 tables 2 figures 12 halftones </P><P>Since its emergence in the 1960s, salsa has transformed from a symbol of Nuyorican pride into an emblem of pan-Latinism and finally a form of global popular culture. While Latinos all over the world have developed and even exported their own �dance accents,� local dance scenes have arisen in increasingly far-flung locations, each with its own flavor and unique features. <P><i>Salsa World</i> examines the ways in which bodies relate to culture in specific places. The contributors, a notable group of scholars and practitioners, analyze dance practices in the U.S., Japan, Spain, France, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Writing from the disciplines of ethnomusicology, anthropology, sociology, and performance studies, the contributors explore salsa�s kinetopias�places defined by movement, or vice versa�as they have arisen through the dance�s interaction with local histories, identities, and musical forms. <P>Taken together, the essays in this book examine contemporary salsa dancing in all its complexity, taking special note of how it is localized and how issues of geography, race and ethnicity, and identity interact with the global salsa industry. <P><i>Contributors include B�rbara Balbuena Guti�rrez, Katherine Borland, Joanna Bosse, Rossy D�az, Sa�l Escalona, Kengo Iwanaga, Isabel Llano, Jonathan S. Marion, Priscilla Renta, Alejandro Ulloa Sanmiguel, and the editor.</i> <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"</I>Salsa World<I> is one of the best books I know on the culture-making character of body movements and interactions, and it will be of great value to any reader interested in the social dimensions of popular dance forms. Hutchinson and her contributors illuminate the complex sociogeographical context of salsa, making a valuable contribution to studies on the relationship between dance, music, community, and social identity."</I> <br>&#151<b>�ngel G. Quintero-Rivera</b> Professor in the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales of the Universidad de Puerto Rico and author of <I>Salsa, sabor y control: Sociolog�a de la m�sica tropical and Cuerpo y cultura: Las m�sicas �mulatas� y la subversi�n del baile</I> <p><I>"</I>Salsa World<I> is a most welcome addition to the literature on salsa. Until now, no book in English has dealt specifically with salsa as a dance practice. The strengths of Hutchinson�s volume are in the breadth of the areas covered and the geographic diversity of the case studies. Only through this type of multisited study can we begin to fully understand the implications of globalization, and the focus on dance rather than music fills a lacuna in salsa scholarship."</I> <br>&#151<b>Christopher Washburne</b> Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program at Columbia University and author of <I>Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City</I> (Temple) <p><i>"Hutchinson and international scholars and practitioners examine the salsa dance experience in parts of the world ranging from Colombia, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic to the United States, Japan, and Spain.... Besides locale, authors also vary in subject background (ethnomusicology, anthropology, performance studies, etc.). Hutchinson has translated many of these articles, and the variety of perspectives provides an intriguing approach to the subject.... VERDICT Useful for students interested in cross-cultural study and issues of dance, place, and identity."</i><br>&#151<b><i>Library Journal</i></b> <p><i>"As </i>Salsa World<i> amply document, the lifts, flips, and dips�were typical of a shift in salsa practice at the turn of the twenty-first century, from a social dance performed in informal settings primarily by Latin/o Americans, to a studio dance phenomena practiced by professionals across a network of formal gatherings and competitions on every continent.� </i>Salsa World<i> takes a more global approach, chronicling the global phenomena of studio salsa in nine essays documenting the studio salsa scene in nine cities in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia."</i> <br>&#151<b><i>Dance Research Journal</i></b> <p><i>"[A] long overdue and a much-welcomed addition to music/dance scholarship.... This collection is a study of a global phenomenon as constructed by people grounded in particular locales....The breadth of place is refreshing, but it is the knowledge and expertise that each of the various authors contributes that makes this book a versatile edition for scholars interested in the processes and particularities of media-influenced, commodity-driven cosmopolitan formations, as well as salsa and popular (partner) dance in general.... Hutchinson gathered essays from scholars beyond the fields of ethnomusicology and anthropology to create a solid and excellent overview of the diversity and influence of this dance."</i> <br>&#151<b><i>CENTRO</i></b> <p><i>"Sydney Hutchinson�s comprehensive anthology on salsa dancing in global and local contexts.... [brings] together essays on salsa dancing and salsa dance scenes throughout the Americas and beyond.... thoughtfully compiled.... Hutchinson is to be commended for bringing such diverse voices together.... [T]his highly recommended anthology illuminates how salsa dancing styles and distinctly local salsa scenes have evolved in multiple locations, but it also offers fascinating insights into the complex interplay between dance and culturally constructed ideas about race, class, ethnic, gender, tradition and modernity, migration, globalization, and national and local identity formation."</i><br>&#151<b><i>The Americas</i></b> <p><i>"</i>Salsa World<i> is a much-needed contribution to the fields of dance and salsa. It continues the critical ethnographic study of salsa.... Looking ahead, scholars working in the field of salsa music and dance will turn to Hutchinson�s volume not only for models to address how the dancing body constitutes the locus of intense kinetopias, but also perhaps discover how and why salsa scholarship might also move toward the direction of critically examining the binary of sound and movement as it has been upheld in salsa scholarship thus far."</i><br>&#151<b><i>Ethnomusicology</i></b> <p><i>"Without a doubt, not only studies about salsa dancing in Chile can benefit from considering perspectives such as the ones offered by this book, but also studies about cumbia, tango, cueca, and other genres that music researchers in Chile are currently paying attention to."/i><br>&#151<b><i>Revista Musical Chilena</i></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Acknowledgments <br>1. Dancing in Place: An Introduction • <i>Sydney Hutchinson</i> <br>2. What�s in a Number? From Local Nostalgia to Global Marketability in New York�s On-2 Salsa • <i>Sydney Hutchinson</i> <br>3. From Hip-Hop and Hustle to Mambo and Salsa: New Jersey�s Eclectic Salsa Dance Revival • <i>Katherine Borland</i> <br>4. Contextualizing Content and Conduct in the L.A. Salsa Scene • <i>Jonathan S. Marion</i> <br>5. Small-Town Cosmopolitans: Salsa Dance in Rural America • <i>Joanna Bosse</i> <br>6. Dancing Salsa in Cuba: Another Look • <i>B�rbara Balbuena Guti�rrez (Translated by Sydney Hutchinson)</i> <br>7. The Global Commercialization of Salsa Dancing and <i>Sabor</i> (Puerto Rico) • <i>Priscilla Renta</i> <br>8. I dentity Is Also Danced (Cali, Colombia) • <i>Alejandro Ulloa Sanmiguel (Translated by Sydney Hutchinson)</i> <br>9. Dancing Salsa in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: A First Look • <i>Rossy D�az (Translated by Sydney Hutchinson)</i> <br>10. <i>Allons � la F�te�On Danse Salsa</i>: New Routes for Salsa in France • <i>Sa�l Escalona (Translated by Sydney Hutchinson)</i> <br>11. Salsa in Barcelona and Spain • <i>Isabel Llano (Translated by Sydney Hutchinson)</i> <br>12. Diffusion and Change in Salsa Dance Styles in Japan • <i>Kengo Iwanaga</i> <br>Contributors <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Sydney Hutchinson</b> is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/music.html" TARGET="_top">Music and Dance</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/latin.html" TARGET="_top">Latin American/Caribbean Studies</a> <BR> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/latin_music.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music</a></i>, edited by Peter Manuel. </p><p><i>Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music</i>, edited by Peter Manuel, aims to present interdisciplinary studies in the traditional and contemporary musics of Latin America and the Caribbean.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439910061&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2016 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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