Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America

This collection deals with various manifestations of Argentine music and dance and how they relate to affects, feelings, and emotions, showing how music creates particular atmospheres, via the induction, modulation and circulation of affects and emotions, which are felt but, at the same time, they do not belong to anybody in particular.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Pablo Vila

Chapter One: Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions: Where We Are Now.
Pablo Vila

Chapter Two: The Embodiment of Gozo. : Aesthetic, Emotion and Politics in the Indigenous Song-dances of the Argentine Chaco
Silvia Citro and Adriana Cerletti

Chapter Three: Traditional Sonorous Poetics. Ways of Appropriation and Perception of "Andean" Music and Practices in Buenos Aires.
Adil Podhajcer

Chapter Four: Pleasures in Conflict: Maternity, Eroticism, and Sexuality in Tango Dancing
Juliana Verdenelli, Translated by Elliot Prussing

Chapter Five: Self-Expression Through Self-Discipline. Technique, Expression, and Losing Oneself in Classical Dance
Ana Sabrina Mora, Translated by Elliot Prussing

Chapter Six: Did Cumbia Villera Bother Us? Criticisms on the Academic Common Sense
Representation of the Link Between Women and Music
Malvina Silba and Carolina Spataro, Translated by Federico Á lvarez Gandolfi

Chapter Seven: Peronism and Communism, Feelings and Songs: Militant Affects in Two Versions of the Political Song in Argentina
Carlos Molinero and Pablo Vila

Chapter Eight: Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions: Where We Can Be
Pablo Vila

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