Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America

Pablo Vila is professor of sociology at Temple University.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPablo VilaChapter One: Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions: Where We Are Now.Pablo VilaChapter Two: The Embodiment of Gozo.: Aesthetic, Emotion and Politics in the Indigenous Song-dances of the Argentine ChacoSilvia Citro and Adriana CerlettiChapter Three: Traditional Sonorous Poetics. Ways of Appropriation and Perception of “Andean” Music and Practices in Buenos Aires.Adil PodhajcerChapter Four: Pleasures in Conflict: Maternity, Eroticism, and Sexuality in Tango Dancing Juliana Verdenelli, Translated by Elliot PrussingChapter Five: Self-Expression Through Self-Discipline. Technique, Expression, and Losing Oneself in Classical DanceAna Sabrina Mora, Translated by Elliot PrussingChapter Six: Did Cumbia Villera Bother Us? Criticisms on the Academic Common Sense Representation of the Link Between Women and MusicMalvina Silba and Carolina Spataro, Translated by Federico Álvarez GandolfiChapter Seven: Peronism and Communism, Feel

This book's extended theoretical exploration illuminates the complex ways that music acts on bodies to evoke feelings and identities, while the case studies exemplify these processes across a variety of Latin American genres. This is a pioneering contribution to the study of affect in music.