Waxer Situating Salsa

Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-72541-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 350 Seiten

Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waxer, Lise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Weltmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Contributors
Preface
Part I: Locating Salsa
1. Situating Salsa: Latin Music at the Crossroads, Lise Waxer
2. Is Salsa a Musical Genre? Marisol Berríos-Miranda
3. Salsa and Socialism: Dance Music in Cuba, 1959-99, Robin Moore
4. "Cha Cha with a Backbeat": Songs and Stories of Latin Boogaloo, Juan Flores
5. Salsa Romántica: An Analysis of Style, Christopher Washburne
Part II: Personalizing Salsa
6. La Lupe, La India and Celia: Toward a Feminist Genealogy of Salsa Music, Frances R. Aparicio
7. El Hombre que Respira Debajo del Agua: Trans-Boricua Memories, Identities and Nationalisms Performed Through the Death of Héctor Lavor Wilson A. Valentín Escobar
8. Memoirs of a Life in Salsa, Catalino "Tite" Curet Alonso (Translated by Lise Waxer)
9. Poncho Sánchez, Latin Jazz, and the Cuban Son: A Stylistic and Social Analysis, Steven Loza
Part III: Relocating Salsa
10. Llegó la Salsa: The Rise of Salsa in Venezuela and Columbia, Lise Waxer
11. Se Prohibe Escuchar "Salsa y Control": When Salsa Arrived in Buenaventura, Columbia Medardo Arias Santizábal (Translated by Lise Waxer)
12. The Making of a Salsa Music Scene in London, Patria Román-Velázquez
13. Salsa No Tiene Fronteras: Orquesta de la Luz and the Globilazation of Popular Music, Shuhei Hosokawa
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lise Waxer is Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. She received her PhD. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. She has conducted extensive ethnographic and historical research on salsa music and its Cuban roots and also performs Latin jazz and salsa on the piano. She is in the process of completing her first book, The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves, and Local Popular Culture in Columbia.