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Sounding salsa : performing Latin music in New York City  Cover Image E-book E-book

Sounding salsa : performing Latin music in New York City

Summary: This ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s offers detailed accounts of musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commercial pressures. The author, himself an accomplished salsa musician, examines the organizational structures, recording processes, rehearsing and gigging of salsa bands.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781592133161
  • ISBN: 9781592133154
  • ISBN: 9781592133154
  • ISBN: 1592133169
  • ISBN: 1592133150
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations, music
    remote
    Computer data.
    print
  • Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Multi-User.
CatMonthString:january.23
CatMonthString:march.23
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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 -- Appendices.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
System Details Note:
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access restricted by subscription.
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Information Relating to Copyright Status:
All rights reserved.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by American Council of Learned Societies.
Subject: Salsa (Music) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism
Salsa (Music) -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
Multi-User.
Genre: Electronic books.

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