Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America

Edited by Pablo Vila - Contributions by Adriana Cerletti; Silvia Citro; Carlos Molinero; Ana Sabrina Mora; Adil Podhajcer; Malvina L. Silba; Carolina Spataro; Juliana Verdenelli and Pablo Vila

Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America is a collection of essays that analyze different manifestations of Argentine music and dance taking advantage of the exciting new theoretical developments advanced by the current affective turn. Contributors deal with the relationship between music, dance, affects, feelings, and emotions in different scenarios and show how the embodiment of music shape the experiential in ways that may impact upon but nevertheless many times evade conscious knowing. This book is one of the first academic attempts (regardless of region or country of scope) to try to solve some of the most important problems the affective turn has identified regarding how music and dance have been researched so far, such as the tendency, in representational accounts of music, to ignore the sensory and sonic registers to the detriment of the embodied and lived registers of experience and feeling that unfold in the process of making or listening to music.

Lexington Books

Pages: 296 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-3692-9 • Hardback • February 2017 • $136.00 • (£105.00)

978-1-4985-3694-3 • Paperback • November 2018 • $50.99 • (£39.00)

978-1-4985-3693-6 • eBook • February 2017 • $48.00 • (£37.00)

Series: Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America

Subjects: History / Latin America / General, Social Science / World / Latin America

Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America

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Summary

Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America is a collection of essays that analyze different manifestations of Argentine music and dance taking advantage of the exciting new theoretical developments advanced by the current affective turn. Contributors deal with the relationship between music, dance, affects, feelings, and emotions in different scenarios and show how the embodiment of music shape the experiential in ways that may impact upon but nevertheless many times evade conscious knowing. This book is one of the first academic attempts (regardless of region or country of scope) to try to solve some of the most important problems the affective turn has identified regarding how music and dance have been researched so far, such as the tendency, in representational accounts of music, to ignore the sensory and sonic registers to the detriment of the embodied and lived registers of experience and feeling that unfold in the process of making or listening to music.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 296 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-3692-9 • Hardback • February 2017 • $136.00 • (£105.00)

978-1-4985-3694-3 • Paperback • November 2018 • $50.99 • (£39.00)

978-1-4985-3693-6 • eBook • February 2017 • $48.00 • (£37.00)

Series: Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America

Subjects: History / Latin America / General, Social Science / World / Latin America

Author

Pablo Vila is professor of sociology at Temple University.

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Pablo Vila

Chapter One: Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions: Where We Are Now.
Pablo Vila

Chapter Two: The Embodiment of Gozo.: Aesthetic, Emotion and Politics in the Indigenous Song-dances of the Argentine Chaco
Silvia Citro and Adriana Cerletti

Chapter Three: Traditional Sonorous Poetics. Ways of Appropriation and Perception of “Andean” Music and Practices in Buenos Aires.
Adil Podhajcer

Chapter Four: Pleasures in Conflict: Maternity, Eroticism, and Sexuality in Tango Dancing
Juliana Verdenelli, Translated by Elliot Prussing

Chapter Five: Self-Expression Through Self-Discipline. Technique, Expression, and Losing Oneself in Classical Dance
Ana Sabrina Mora, Translated by Elliot Prussing

Chapter Six: Did Cumbia Villera Bother Us? Criticisms on the Academic Common Sense
Representation of the Link Between Women and Music
Malvina Silba and Carolina Spataro, Translated by Federico Álvarez Gandolfi

Chapter Seven: Peronism and Communism, Feelings and Songs: Militant Affects in Two Versions of the Political Song in Argentina
Carlos Molinero and Pablo Vila

Chapter Eight: Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions: Where We Can Be
Pablo Vila

About the Contributors

Reviews

This book's extended theoretical exploration illuminates the complex ways that music acts on bodies to evoke feelings and identities, while the case studies exemplify these processes across a variety of Latin American genres. This is a pioneering contribution to the study of affect in music.
— Nancy Morris, Temple University

Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America innovates by placing emphasis on how music and dance mobilize affect— something made evident in the expression ‘groove to the music’— while at the same time detailing the complex set of factors (social conditions, identity constituents, etc.) that mediate musical representations and corporeal affects and emotions.
— George Yúdice, University of Miami

For the humanities and humanistic social sciences, the affective turn forcefully compels a return to bodies in their multifarious relations—with themselves, other bodies, places, communities, with things of all kinds, and much more. This remarkable volume makes another, and most audacious, turn: South. Incisive essays show the rich complexities of how affect and emotions animate musicking (making, listening, dancing) in the specificity of Latin America locations. In a stunning demonstration of post-constructionism, we experience affect and emotions as living correlates of meaning and as a dynamic force for the evasive but inescapable subsistence of identities and subjectivities.
— Jairo A. Moreno, University of Pennsylvania