Latino/a Studies

Related Faculty

Juliet McMains
Ph.D., Professor
Monica Rojas-Stewart
Assistant Professor

Related Research

McMains, Juliet. Director. Faces of Contemporary Tango. https://www.facesoftango.art/
McMains, Juliet. “Femininity and Female Empowerment in Commercial Dance: Shakira and J. Lo at Super Bowl LIV.” In Dance in US Pop Culture, edited by Jennifer Atkins. London and New York: Routledge, 2023.
McMains, Juliet. Spinning Mambo into Salsa: Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce. Oxford University Press, 2015.
McMains, Juliet. “Hot Latin Dance: Ethnic Identity and Stereotype.” The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, edited by Anthony Shay. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013
McMains, Juliet. “Kineschizophonia in Latin Dance Music.” Paper presented at Dance and Music: Moving Dialogues Conference. McGill University, Montreal, February 17, 2011
McMains, Juliet. “Rumba Encounters: Transculturation of Cuban Rumba in American and European Ballrooms.” In Making Caribbean Dance: Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures, edited by Susanna Sloat, 37–48. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2010.
McMains, Juliet. “Followers on the Dance Floor/Leaders in the Dance Industry: A Cross-Generational Comparison of Female Pioneers in 1950s Mambo and 1990s Salsa.” Paper presented at Congress on Research in Dance Annual Conference, Hollins College, Roanoke, VA, 15 November, 2008.
McMains, Juliet. “From Mambo to Salsa: Dancing Across Generational Divides.” Paper presented at Society of Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 26 October, 2008.
McMains, Juliet. “Brownface: Representations of Latin-ness in Dancesport.” Dance Research Journal, 33, no. 2 (2001): 54–71
McMains, Juliet. “Brownface: A New Performance of Minstrelsy in Latin American Dancing?” Paper presented at Dancing at the Millennium Conference, Washington, DC, 22 July 2000.