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Oral History Review Advance Access originally published online on August 18, 2009
Oral History Review 2009 36(2):279-281; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohp064
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From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture

Jeff Friedman

Rutgers University

FROM QUEBRADITA TO DURANGUENSE: DANCE IN MEXICAN AMERICAN YOUTH CULTURE. By Sydney Hutchinson. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. 240 pp. Hardbound, $50.00; Softbound, $24.05.

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"It was either [dance], or do something crazy" (117). Embodied knowledge counts; this dictum is clear enough from author Sydney Hutchinson’s rigorous theoretical framework and analysis of quebradita and duranguense dance forms and their musical accompaniment. From the author’s detailed text, we learn the value of this unique but relatively short-lived music and dance cultural complex, a moving target that both reflects and helps define the transnational character of Mexican-identified youth culture. Hutchinson’s comparative study of dance practices in Los Angeles, California, and Tucson, Arizona, places expressive culture within the cultural studies discursive area, citing ethnic and folklore studies, ethnomusicology, semiotics, and kinesics. Citing cultural theorist Nestor Garcia Canclini, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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