{"product_id":"9780252087134-danzon-days","title":"Danzón Days","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAge, Race, and Romance in Mexico\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 BFE Book Prize (British Forum for Ethnomusicology)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Older people negotiating dance routines, intimacy, and racialized differences provide a focal point for an ethnography of danzón in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated with the music-dance genre. Hettie Malcomson draws upon on-site research with semi-professional musicians and amateur dancers to reveal how danzón connects, and does not connect, to blackness, joyousness, nostalgia, ageing, and romance. Challenging pervasive utopian views of danzón, Malcomson uses the idea of ambivalence to explore the frictions and opportunities created by seemingly contrary sentiments, ideas, sensations, and impulses. Interspersed with experimental ethnographic vignettes, her account takes readers into black and mestizo elements of local identity in Veracruz, nostalgic and newer styles of music and dance, and the friendships, romances, and rivalries at the heart of regular danzón performance and its complex social world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Fine-grained and evocative, \u003ci\u003e Danzón Days\u003c\/i\u003e journeys to one of the genre’s essential cities to provide new perspectives on aging and romance and new explorations of nostalgia and ambivalence. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40850538758241,"sku":"9780252087134","price":23.73,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38092354_245c4066-811d-4b45-9e5e-d25b9aff40ad.jpg?v=1763688972","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780252087134-danzon-days","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}