![]() Affiliation with different local scenes and styles of Salsa dance – L.A. This paper describes the Salsa-scene of Sydney Australia, and links this to different stances towards multilingualism. However, attitudes to multilingualism can differ not only from country to country or from city to city but rather from Salsa-network to Salsa-network. While the language spoken on the dance floors is usually that of the respective (national) environments, the Spanish language is seen as being the authentic means of expression for the music so that outside Latin America, Salsa always brings along the Spanish language. Salsa has its roots in the Americas but is enormously successful worldwide. Salsa, a global urban music and dance phenomenon, is an interesting example for the emergence of transnational cultural spheres. Erving Goffman’s (1959) model of dramaturgy is utilised to frame qualitative data gathered through observations and interviews, to ask: How may this ‘salsa community’, a product of globalisation, be considered as having a distinct identity? How is the city of Glasgow reflected in the salsa? This paper will expand upon this case study approach to interrogate the distinct nature of the ‘salsa community’ in the heart of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Recent studies on social salsa dancing have explored the London scene as a site of de-ethnicisation (Urquía, 2005), the Montreal scene as a location of multiculturalism (Pietrobruno, 2002) and the Belfast scene as a site of resistance and self-regulation (Skinner, 2008). 485) give particular distinctions to ‘salsa communities.’ Unsurprisingly, for such a global phenomenon, the case study approach for investigating participatory salsa dance has been a popular model to follow. ![]() However, as Hannerz (1996) argues, cultural life continues to be heterogeneous despite the impact of globalisation, and with particular reference to social salsa dancing, “local particularities and individual reactions” (Skinner, 2007, p. ![]() 495), with salsa classes, clubs and congresses taking place from “from Los Angeles to Belfast, from Gothenberg (Sweden) to Sacramento, San Francisco to Oxford, Edinburgh to Havana, Amsterdam to Washington” (Skinner, 2007, p. “Globalisation has led to the global export of salsa as a leisure pursuit” (Skinner, 2007, p.
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