Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. About the Series ix
4. Preface: Politics in Motion 1
5. Rebellions of Everynight Life 9
6. Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies 33
7. Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions 65
8. Hip Poetics 93
9. Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens: The National Appropriation of a Gay Tango 141
10. Salsa as Translocation 175
11. Notes toward a Reading of Salsa 189
12. Una verdadera cronica del Norte: Una noche con la India 223
13. I Came, I Saw, I Conga'd: Contexts for a Cuban-American Culture 239
14. Caught in the Web: Latinidad, AIDS, and Allegory in Kiss of the Spider Woman, the Musical 255
15. Against Easy Listening: Audiotopic Readings and Transnational Soundings 288
16. Of Rhythms and Borders 310
17. Bibliography 345
18. Index 359
19. Contributors 365