Dancing Mestizo Modernisms: Choreographing Postcolonial and Postrevolutionary Mexico

ISBN-13: 9780197622568 / Miękka / 2023 / 304 str.

Assistant Professor Jose Luis (Assistant Professor of Dance

Recenzje

In this meticulously researched book, Dr. Reynoso analyzes dance not only as an art form, but also as a way of circulating ideologies that have taken part in the construction of racial and social notion of what "Mexico" is. The author traces how as a specific cultural field dance participated in political, social, and bodily dynamics from the country's postcolonial formation in the 1820s until mid-twentieth century. The book's theoretical approach makes an important contribution to the formulation of dance as an object of study while expanding our knowledge regarding art, cultural practices, and the construction of Mexico (and Latin American countries) as a nation.

O autorze

Jose Luis Reynoso is Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies at UC Riverside. He was the Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in Dances Studies in/and the Humanities at Northwestern University (2012-2014) and completed a M.F.A. in dance (2006) and Ph.D. in culture and performance (2012) at UCLA. He also holds a M.A. degree in psychology from California State University Los Angeles (2003). Dr. Reynoso has published articles on political economy and artistic ideology in postmodern dance practices in the US and Europe, dance studies and dance practices in Mexico, and mestizo dance modernisms in Latin America.