Latin American Research Review (Sep 2018)

Dancing Latinidad: Spinning a World of Salsa Scholarship

  • Ana Paula Höfling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.236
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 53, no. 3
pp. 666 – 670

Abstract

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This essay reviews the following works: Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles. By Cindy García. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. xxv + 181. $23.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822354970. Salsa World: A Global Dance in Local Contexts. Edited by Sydney Hutchinson. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014. Pp. viii + 229. $30.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781439910078. Spinning Mambo into Salsa: Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce. By Juliet McMains. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 409. $35.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780199324644.