Performing the US Latina & Latino Borderlands - by Arturo J Aldama & Chela Sandoval & Peter J García (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>" This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance studies, folklore, and ethnomusicology.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of borderlands. This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance studies, folklore, and ethnomusicology.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands</em> is a vital addition to the growing body of scholarship focused on the ''performatics'' of border-crossers, bordernatives, and border-inhabitants as necessary sources of knowledge.</p></p>-- "Latino Studies"<br><br><p>I would recommend this book for scholars interested in learning about diverse ways that marginalized populations seize the tools of performance and alter them to shift the story. . . Each chapter contains enough cultural context for scholars unfamiliar with Latina/o Studies and enough entertaining performance for everyone.</p>-- "Text and Presentation"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Arturo J. Aldama is Associate Professor of Latino and Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder.</p><p>Chela Sandoval is former Chair and Associate Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.</p><p>Peter J. García is Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Musics at California State University, Northridge.</p>
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