Lexington Books
Pages: 254
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-1053-9 • Hardback • March 2006 • $124.00 • (£95.00)
978-0-7391-1468-1 • Paperback • February 2006 • $59.99 • (£46.00)
978-0-7391-6058-9 • eBook • March 2006 • $56.50 • (£43.00)
Sheenagh Pietrobruno is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward the Global
Chapter 2 Beyond Caribbean Roots
Chapter 3 Transnational Identities and Multicultural Connections
Chapter 4 Staking Claims
Chapter 5 The Couple in Dance
Chapter 6 Commodifying the Gendered Embrace
Chapter 7 Conclusion: Virtual Migrations
This splendid book captures salsa dancing as both a global phenomenon, carried throughout the world by migrants and media technologies, and as a local practice, rooted deeply in the distinct cultures of different cities. Pietrobruno deftly combines richethnographic observation with a well-researched account of salsa's origins, development and ongoing transformations. The book moves towards a compelling engagement with dance's place in a world of digital communications and within what Pietrobruno callsvirtual migrations. This is a genuinely interdisciplinary book, one which will interest scholars of dance, diasporic cultural practice, media and popular music...
— William Straw, James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies, McGill University