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Sounding salsa : performing Latin music in New York City / Christopher Washburne.

By: Publication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2008.Description: xii, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781592133154 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1592133150 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781592133161 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1592133169 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.64089/6807471 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3535.5 .W37 2008
Contents:
Salsa bands and the performance of pueble -- The music is so good, but the scene is pure dues!: salsa musicians -- Play like there's a gun to your head!: the aesthetics and performance practice of sounding violence in salsa -- New York salsa and drugs: aesthetics, performance practice, governmental policy, and the illicit drug trade -- La India and the masquerading of gender on the salsa scene -- They are going to hear this in Puerto Rico. It has got to be good!: the sound and style of salsa.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-243) and index.

Salsa bands and the performance of pueble -- The music is so good, but the scene is pure dues!: salsa musicians -- Play like there's a gun to your head!: the aesthetics and performance practice of sounding violence in salsa -- New York salsa and drugs: aesthetics, performance practice, governmental policy, and the illicit drug trade -- La India and the masquerading of gender on the salsa scene -- They are going to hear this in Puerto Rico. It has got to be good!: the sound and style of salsa.

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