Sounding salsa : performing Latin music in New York City
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Sounding salsa : performing Latin music in New York City
（Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music / edited by Peter Manuel）
Temple University Press, 2008
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Bibliographic references: p. [230]-243
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Examines how musicians navigated their everyday lives, grappling with the intercultural tensions and commercial pressures that were so pronounced on the salsa scene
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Salsa in New York
- 1: Salsa Bands and the performance of Pueble
- 2: "The music is so good but the scene is pure dues!": Salsa Musicians
- 3: "Play like there's a gun to your head!": The Aesthetics and Performance Practice of Sounding Violence in Salsa
- 4: New York Salsa and Drugs: Aesthetics, Performance Practice, Governmental Policy, and the Illicit Drug Trade
- 5: La India and the Masquerading of Gender on the Salsa Scene
- 6: "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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