The mass shooting at a queer Latin Night in Orlando in July 2016 sparked a public
conversation about access to pleasure and selfhood within conditions of colonization …

Rumba guaguancó, a sub-genre of Afro-Cuban popular dance, has been widely defined as
a dance of courtship, characterized as a male pursuit of a woman's sex. The article analyzes …

This article examines Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso and his dance contributions to
Cuban musical theatre from the 1940s through the early 1960s. The analysis integrates the …

This ethnographic study explores how local and global forces influence a unique set of self-
employed people in Havana's tourism industry–dance instructors–and how these …

This article examines Havana jazz musician Daymé Arocena's Santería aesthetics and work
and the ways they dialog with the idea of Cubanness and the Cuban nation. It argues that …