{"product_id":"danzon-days-9780252087134","title":"Danzon Days","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bfe.org.uk\/bfe-book-prize\"\u003e2024 BFE Book Prize (British Forum for Ethnomusicology)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Older people negotiating dance routines, intimacy, and racialized differences provide a focal point for an ethnography of danzón in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated with the music-dance genre. Hettie Malcomson draws upon on-site research with semi-professional musicians and amateur dancers to reveal how danzón connects, and does not connect, to blackness, joyousness, nostalgia, ageing, and romance. Challenging pervasive utopian views of danzón, Malcomson uses the idea of ambivalence to explore the frictions and opportunities created by seemingly contrary sentiments, ideas, sensations, and impulses. Interspersed with experimental ethnographic vignettes, her account takes readers into black and mestizo elements of local identity in Veracruz, nostalgic and newer styles of music and dance, and the friendships, romances, and ri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eAgainst Racism: Organizing for Social Change in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVignette 1. Gerardo, Elena, and Miguel [Fiction] \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction. Danzón, Veracruz, and Ambivalence \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Vignette 2. Teresita [Fiction] \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 1. Racial Ambivalence: Veracruz, Blackness, and Danzón \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Vignette 3. Pancho [Fiction] \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 2. Ambivalent Nostalgia: Histories and Memories of the Port and Its Danzón \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Vignette 4. Renata [Fiction] \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 3. Elegant Moves: Modernist Aesthetics and Danzón in Veracruz \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Vignette 5. Lulú and Antonio [Fiction] \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 4. Moves to Rescue: Reviving the Dance, State Sponsorship, and Power \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Vignette 6. Hettie and Uriel \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 5. United in a Viper’s Nest: Group Dynamics, Conviviality, and Rivalry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Vignette 7. Carmen and Ernesto [Fiction] \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 6. Loving Ambivalence: Dance Groups, Amorous Encounters, and Ageing Bodies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Vignette 8. Diana [Fiction] \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Glossary \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Select Discography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Select Filmography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400523784535,"sku":"9780252087134","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252087134.jpg?v=1730470891","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/danzon-days-9780252087134","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}