TY - JOUR
T1 - Exhibiting voice/narrating migration
T2 - Performance-based curatorial practice in ¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
AU - Rivera-Servera, Ramón H.
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to thank the Smithsonian Institution for the support of my research through a Latino Studies Post-doctoral Fellowship and especially to the team of curators and museum professionals who worked on Azúcar! I appreciate the candor and honesty with which they discussed their experiences with the project. I am also indebted to students at Northwestern University who offered insightful responses to this paper during a visit in October 2006. Lastly, I am immensely grateful to TPQ’s anonymous peer reviewers and to Shane Moreman and Bernadette Calafell for their insightful editorial comments. They have pushed my thinking in this piece in directions unforeseen prior to my rich and fruitful engagements with their ideas and queries. Any shortcomings are exclusively my own. This paper was originally presented at Northwestern University on October, 2006.
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - This essay offers a critical reading of the exhibition ¡Azú car! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz. Focusing on the negotiations between institutional expectations and curatorial practice, this piece analyzes performance-based curatorial strategies employed in the articulation of an alternative to the narrative of Latina/o history at the Smithsonian. The author argues for a critical engagement with performance as an affective and effective approach to the exhibition of latinidad.
AB - This essay offers a critical reading of the exhibition ¡Azú car! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz. Focusing on the negotiations between institutional expectations and curatorial practice, this piece analyzes performance-based curatorial strategies employed in the articulation of an alternative to the narrative of Latina/o history at the Smithsonian. The author argues for a critical engagement with performance as an affective and effective approach to the exhibition of latinidad.
KW - Affect
KW - Celia Cruz
KW - Latina/o Performance
KW - Salsa
KW - Smithsonian Institution
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U2 - 10.1080/10462930902774841
DO - 10.1080/10462930902774841
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77950695240
SN - 1046-2937
VL - 29
SP - 131
EP - 148
JO - Text and Performance Quarterly
JF - Text and Performance Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -