Embodying Mexico
Tourism, Nationalism, and Performance
Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 June 2011
- ISBN 9780199790814
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 231x152x22 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 23 photographs 0
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Short description:
Exploring the role of performance in tourist and nationalist contexts, Embodying Mexico analyzes the making of icons in twentieth-century Mexico, as local dance, music, and ritual practices are transformed into national and global spectacles. Drawing on extensive ethnographic, archival, and participatory experience this interdisciplinary study makes an important contribution to an understanding of Mexican cultural politics.
MoreLong description:
Embodying Mexico examines two performative icons of Mexicanness--the Dance of the Old Men and Night of the Dead of Lake Pátzcuaro--in numerous manifestations, including film, theater, tourist guides, advertisements, and souvenirs. Covering a ninety-year period from the postrevolutionary era to the present day, Hellier-Tinoco's analysis is thoroughly grounded in Mexican politics and history, and simultaneously incorporates choreographic, musicological, and dramaturgical analysis.
Exploring multiple contexts in Mexico, the USA, and Europe, Embodying Mexico expands and enriches our understanding of complex processes of creating national icons, performance repertoires, and tourist attractions, drawing on wide-ranging ethnographic, archival, and participatory experience. An extensive companion website illustrates the author's arguments through audio and video.
This is a long but well-researched study and an important book, not so much because it is about dance per se - although there is ample footage on the accompanying website, which is a useful addition - but rather because it is about its miliey during an important phase of Mexican social history.
Table of Contents:
Part One: Setting the Scene: Many Mexicos
Introduction
Beyond Your Expectations: Twentyfirst Century Mexico
Discursive Communities: Performism, Nationalism, and Tourism
Part Two: Tracing Ninety Years of Performism
Forging the Nation: the Postrevolutionary Years
Appropriation and Incorporation: From Island Village to Capital City
Destination Lake Pátzcuaro: Creating a Tourist Attraction with Night of the Dead
Authentic Mexican Dances: The Palace of Fine Arts and Across the Border
Films, Visual Images, and Folklórico: Belonging, Difference, and Bodies
Experiencing Night of the Dead: Festivals, Contests, and Souvenirs
Disseminating The Old Men: Mexico City, Europe, the World
Keeping It Local: Reappropriation, Migration, and the Zacán Festival
Part Three: Embodiment, Photographs, and Economics
In the Body: Indigenous Corporeality, Work, and Interpretation
Capturing Bodies: Postcards, Advertising, and the World's Fair
Celebrating and Consuming Bodies: Economic and Symbolic Production
