Jarocho's Soul Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance

Name: Jarocho's Soul Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance
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ISBN: 9780761827757

ISBN-10: 0761827757

ISBN-13: 9780761827757

Edition: N/A

Authors: Anita Gonzï¿½lez

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Brown-skinned men and women dance Jarocho across the cultural landscape of Mexican stages and festival grounds. Jarocho's Soul traces the development of an Afro-Mexican dance style and contrasts Mexican performance of mixed race identity with United States ethnic art performances.

Book details

List price: $49.99
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/9/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 182
Size: 5.40" wide x 7.64" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

ANITA GONZÃLEZ is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is the author of Jarocho's Soul: Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance, and she has published essays in Modern Drama, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Community and Performance Reader, and Dance Research Journal.



List of illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Cultural mixing and Mexican performance



Roots of Jarocho dance



Jarocho as folkloric dance



Jarocho as theater



Remembering and transforming the past


Conclusion


Glossary


References


Index