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Salsa and Its Transnational Moves presents a brilliant critical analysis of salsa dancing in a major North American city. Drawing from a vast number of disciplines; author Sheenagh Pietrobruno focuses on the tension between the status of dance as a bodily expression of identity and its function as a cultural commodity within the economic life of modern day cities. This engaging work investigates the transnational movements of salsa by exploring the circulation of salsa within the Montreal dance scene; nourished by the continuous flow of a people; and examining the commodification of the Latino culture. Pietrobrunos analysis is singular in highlighting how the migration of a people and a dance represent displacements that are not always homologous. At the core of this work; Pietrobruno offers an extensive and intricate ethnography of the institutions and individuals involved in shaping the Montreal salsa scene that will appeal to academics and general audiences alike; who are interested in the study of anthropology; popular music; dance; gender; ethnicity; and culture.