Version:0.9 StartHTML:0000000105 EndHTML:0000005095 StartFragment:0000000141 EndFragment:0000005055 In this article, I examine the history of a genre that spans several continents and several centuries. I bring together material from Mexico, Cuba, France and the UK to create anew, expand upon and critique the ‘standard’ histories of danzón narrated by Mexico’s danzón experts (and others). In these ‘standard’ histories, origins and nationality are key to the constitution of genres which are ra...