Salsa for People Who Probably Shouldn't

Rendell, Matt

ISBN 10: 1845963997 / ISBN 13: 9781845963996

Verlag: Mainstream Publishing, 2011

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Salsa for People Who Probably Shouldn't
• Verlag: Mainstream Publishing
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1845963997
• ISBN-13: 9781845963996
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Good
• Gewicht: 421,8 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

An entertaining memoir about salsa and the British, by a tall, white, clumsy Englishman who learned the dance with his Colombian wife

Matt Rendell learned salsa the British way, as an adult, rote-learning figures and routines. His Colombian wife, Vivi, acquired salsa in early childhood from her parents and grandparents; the dance made her part of her community. A love story about two people from cultures at sometimes comical cross-purposes, Salsa for People Who Probably Shouldn't explores how the world's most popular dance went global, how it reached the UK, and whether the saucy, salacious salsa of their national fantasy life is really as exotic as the British like to think. It looks at how, through salsa, the British negotiate personal issues like mind-body relations or sex, and wider social ones like their national identity crisis, and it contains interviews with some of salsa's most renowned dancers and musicians, as well as with dance coaches from Strictly Come Dancing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matt Rendell is the author of several other books, including the award-winning King of the Mountains and The Death of Marco Pantani, and most recently Olympic Gangster. He is married and divides his time between Bristol and Medellín, Colombia.