Danzón : circum-Caribbean dialogues in music and dance /
Alejandro L. Madrid and Robin D. Moore
. - xv, 279 s. : ill., musiknoter
. - Currents in Latin American & Iberian music .
. - B30.312
Innehåller bibliografi och index
Danzón matters : mapping out the issues -- Danzón as a performance complex -- Race, morality, and the circulation of danzón, 1870-1940 -- The danzón and musical dialogues with early jazz -- Nostalgia, affect, and performativity in contemporary danzón scenes -- Cachondería, discipline, and danzón dancing -- Danzón musings beyond the dancehall
Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition the danzón first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in 19th-century Cuba. By the early 20th-century, it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean basin. This book studies the emergence hemisphere-wide influence, and historical and contemporary significance of this phenomenon of music and dance