The Configuration of Salsa Masculinities on Salsaforums.com

• 作者: WANG Qiong
• 来源期刊: 新闻与大众传媒:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: hegemonic masculinities EMBODIED EXPERIENCE INCLUSIVE masculinities
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（1）
• 页码范围: 57-62
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: J72

摘要

This essay examines the configuration of masculinities in salsa dance based on discussions on a popular salsa website,Salsaforums.com.With a thorough combing of the popular threads on male dancers,it contends that in the traditional framework of performance of men in salsa,the issue of masculinity as a social practice embedded in the discursive structuring of various social forces has to be explored from a dynamic and eclectic perspective.Discourses are manifest in the male dancers’pride,insecurity,and anxiety.While trying to retain dispositions or attributes traditionally ascribed to men,however,male salsa dancers are negotiating a salsa masculinity that is multiple,fluid,flexible,and on the way to embrace a more inclusive spectrum of possibilities.