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Named salsa: linking with the words 'hot' and 'spicy'.

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1. -Strinati, D. (1995) An introduction to Theories of Popular Culture

2. Butler, J. (1997) 'Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory, in Conboy, K. Medina, N. and Stanbury, S. (eds.) Writing on the Body: Female Empowerment and Feminist Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 401-418.

3. Lorde, A. (1997) 'Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power' in Conboy, K. Medina, N. and Stanbury, S. (eds.) Writing on the Body: Female Empowerment and Feminist Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 277-282.

4. Salsa (dance) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa_(dance)[Accessed on 11th March 2016]

5. Thornton, S. (1995) Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital. Cambridge: Blackwell publishers. pp. 1-14

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Example of following and leading, and easy steps you would be taught at bar salsa.

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Gender, sexuality, identity and power.

"People loved they were learning more about themselves as they dance."

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Gender Performativity- un natural performance which is socially done.

'One is not born a woman one becomes a woman' (Butler, J, 1997)

-Gender Performativity

“...gender is in no way a stable identity;... rather, it is an identity tenuously constituted in time -an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts.” (Butler, 1988: 519)

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Masculine: Speaking to men I danced with they like to feel in control, and like teaching the non-dancers how to salsa.

-The social expectations of the male.

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Automatically, think of flumtous costumes, linked with the sexy, Latino women, 'Sterio-Typed' when thinking of salsa dance.

-Primitivism

-This suggest's it produces a stylised image for women Salsa performers.

-What did the women at bar salsa say? They were disagreeing with this statement;
'we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information, confusing it with its opposite, the pornographic.” (Lorde, 1978: 88)

-Another example:
Music sociologist Sarah Thornton (1995)

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Its a popular form of social dance, relating to way of life and culture. e.g. Families

Speaking to people at Bar Salsa, they said that it was a great place to connect and meet new people.

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During my time at Bar Salsa. I found a range of people, from many ages and many ethnicities.

Ages: 18-70 (Mainly 20s-30s)

Gender: Men and Women.

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http://www.bar-salsa.com
They offer a club like atmosphere with an open dance floor from around 9pm every night. Through out the day they hold many dance classes available for anyone who wants participate in them for a small fee.