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Jarocho’s Soul: Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University Press of America (an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield)
\nFebruary 2004
\n182 pages
\nSize: 5 1\/2 x 7 3\/4
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-7618-2775-7<\/p>\n

Anita Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts
\nState University of New York, New Paltz<\/em><\/p>\n

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Brown-skinned men and women move across Mexico’s national stages dancing the folkloric jarocho<\/a><\/em>, a symbolic blend of Spanish, Native American, and African cultures. Jarocho’s Soul: Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance<\/em> traces the evolution and transformation of an Afro-Mexican dance form into a national cultural icon. It is an ethnographic study that compares and contrasts Mexican performance of national identity with Untied States dance styles. The book uses the image of the jarocho<\/em> as a window to explore the phenomena of racial\/cultural mixing that is endemic to Mexico and increasingly apparent in the politics and aesthetics of United States cultural performances.<\/p>\n

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