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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Malcomson provides a superb ethnographic study of ambivalence in lived experience: danzón is disciplinary and jealously competitive, yet it gives aficionados room to be creative and convivial, and to weave identities around narratives of blackness and race mixture, local histories, and personal trajectories. A brilliant exploration of how people navigate the contradictions of everyday life.”--Peter Wade, coeditor of
Against Racism: Organizing for Social Change in Latin AmericaTable of ContentsVignette 1. Gerardo, Elena, and Miguel [Fiction]
Introduction. Danzón, Veracruz, and Ambivalence
Vignette 2. Teresita [Fiction]
Chapter 1. Racial Ambivalence: Veracruz, Blackness, and Danzón
Vignette 3. Pancho [Fiction]
Chapter 2. Ambivalent Nostalgia: Histories and Memories of the Port and Its Danzón
Vignette 4. Renata [Fiction]
Chapter 3. Elegant Moves: Modernist Aesthetics and Danzón in Veracruz
Vignette 5. Lulú and Antonio [Fiction]
Chapter 4. Moves to Rescue: Reviving the Dance, State Sponsorship, and Power
Vignette 6. Hettie and Uriel
Chapter 5. United in a Viper’s Nest: Group Dynamics, Conviviality, and Rivalry
Vignette 7. Carmen and Ernesto [Fiction]
Chapter 6. Loving Ambivalence: Dance Groups, Amorous Encounters, and Ageing Bodies
Vignette 8. Diana [Fiction]
Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
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Bibliography
Index
