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Silvers, Michael B. Buchanan, Donna Blefko, Sydney 2019-08-23T19:55:41Z 2019-08-23T19:55:41Z 2019-04-22 2019-05 Within this thesis, I explore various facets of New York City’s salsa scene. I first examine the political history of cabaret laws in New York City throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, and demonstrate that these laws had drastic impacts on marginalized populations within the city. Although I include other genres within my exploration of these laws, I give particular focus to salsa music and dance, which I contend were silent casualties of Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s enforcement of the cabaret law in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I then move to discuss my own experiences learning to salsa dance within contemporary spaces in New York City and the context-specific meanings that accrue on the site of the dancing body. While utilizing a phenomenological approach and contextualizing my own movements within the complex, highly contested history of nightlife within New York City, I assert that the processes of learning to dance can engender spatial and interpersonal transformation. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2019-08-22 without embargo terms The student, Sydney Blefko, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-16 at 15:41. The student, Sydney Blefko, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-04-17 at 15:47. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-04-22 at 15:35. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13684 on 2019-08-22 at 14:44:13 Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T19:55:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 BLEFKO-THESIS-2019.pdf: 815992 bytes, checksum: da019a805c3fee18c6a7bfe629e85ac0 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: f7dfce74f8ad01c85d9589f40020fac8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-04-22 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/104848 en Copyright 2019 Sydney Blefko salsa dance New York City Rudy Giuliani quality of life policing 1990s cabaret law nightlife Broken windows and dancing bodies: Politics of movement in New York City’s salsa scene text text Music Music University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.Mus.