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Salsa World: A Global Dance in Local Contexts by Sydney Hutchinson (review)

Over the past decades numerous monographs on Latino and Latin American popular musics such as salsa, merengue, cumbia, conjunto, and banda have analyzed the musics in relation to the cultural contexts within which they have emerged. These studies, however, have generally been attentive to the music per se and to the performers, with less attention paid to dancers, whose physical and social experiences can and should be distinguished from their roles as consumers of music. Sydney Hutchinson’s comprehensive anthology on salsa dancing in global and local contexts corrects this imbalance by bringing together essays on salsa dancing and salsa dance scenes throughout the Americas and beyond.