Name: Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation
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Author: Cuellar, Manuel R.
ISBN: 9781477330807

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Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation

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Physical Book

Author

Manuel R. Cuellar

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Language

English

Pages

344

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm

ISBN13

9781477330807

Synopsis "Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation"

2023 de la Torre Bueno(R) First Book Award, Dance Studies Association The impact of folkloric dance and performance on Mexican cultural politics and national identity. The years between 1910 and 1940 were formative for Mexico, with the ouster of Porfirio Díaz, the subsequent revolution, and the creation of the new state. Amid the upheaval, Mexican dance emerged as a key arena of contestation regarding what it meant to be Mexican. Through an analysis of written, photographic, choreographic, and cinematographic renderings of a festive Mexico, Choreographing Mexico examines how bodies in motion both performed and critiqued the nation. Manuel Cuellar details the integration of Indigenous and regional dance styles into centennial celebrations, civic festivals, and popular films. Much of the time, this was a top-down affair, with cultural elites seeking to legitimate a hegemonic national character by incorporating traces of indigeneity. Yet dancers also used their moving bodies to challenge the official image of a Mexico full of manly vigor and free from racial and ethnic divisions. At home and abroad, dancers made nuanced articulations of female, Indigenous, Black, and even queer renditions of the nation. Cuellar reminds us of the ongoing political significance of movement and embodied experience, as folklórico maintains an important and still-contested place in Mexican and Mexican American identity today.

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