*  Reading: M. Grace Miller:”Caribbean Counterpoint and Mulatez”
   Finish Roots of Rhythm

*  Movement class: intro to SALSA

*  Reading: M. Talmo Chvaicer:”The Criminalization of Capoeira in 19th Century Brazil”

*  Reading: TBA
   Film - Black Orpheus

*  Reading: M. Grace Miller:”Tango in black and White”
   Documentary - Tango, the Obsession

*  Movement Class: intro to TANGO

*  Reading: S. Pietrobuno: “Commodifying the Gendered Embrace”

*  Reading: R. Aparicio:”Patriarchal Synecdoches: Of women’s butts and feminist rebuttals”
   Video - Salsa videoclips

*  Reading: F. Aparicio: “La Lupe, La India, and Celia:Towards a feminist genealogy of salsa music”

*  Reading: B. Anderson: “Creole Pioneers”

*  Student presentations

*  Student presentations

   -SPRING BREAK-

*  Reading: L. Tome:”Giselle in a Cuban Accent”
   Movie - Giselle (National Ballet of Cuba)

*  Guest Speaker: Margarita de Saa, Cuban
   ballet teacher

*  Reading: L. Tome:”the Musical Cuban: alicia Alonso’s Conceptualization of Musicality as a signifier
   of a Cuban cultural  identity in ballet"
   Movie - Sinfonia de Gottschalk (National Ballet of Cuba)

*  Reading: W.A.V. Escobar:”El ombre que Respira Debajo del Agua: Trans-Boricua memories, identities,
   and nationalisms performed through the Death of Hector Lavoe”
   Movie - El Cantante

*  Reading: M.F. Savignano:”Scandalizing National Identity”
   Documentary - Tango, Baile Neuestro

* Reading: S. Pietrobruno:”Staking Claims”

*  Movement Class: intro to SALSA

*  Reading: M.E. Savignano:”Exotic Encounters”

*  FIELD TRIP/Discussion of ethnographic field trip

*  Documentary - The Return of Ruben Blades

*  Reading: F. Aparicio:”Situating Salsa”

*  Reading: R. Moore:”Salsa and Socialism: Dance Music in Cuba, 1959-1999”

*  Reading: A.P. Hof ling:”Resistance from the inside: An analysis of the jogo de dentro in Brazilian Capoeira
   Angola”

   Movement Class: intro to CAPOEIRA
   Final Papers Due

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