Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music

by Waxer; Lise

• ISBN13: 9780815340195
• ISBN10: 0815340192
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts. It consists of thirteen newly commissioned essays and four reprinted essays that explore the diffusion of this popular sound from its Hispanic Caribbean origins to audiences around the world. Drawing upon interviews, field observations, oral histories, personal memoirs, archival resources, and musical analysis, the volume sheds new light on current debates about race and ethnicity, class hierarchy, gender roles, and generational differences.

Author Biography

Lise Waxer is Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She has written extensively on salsa music, its roots, and its international diffusion

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
PART I: LOCATING SALSA
Situating Salsa: Latin Music at the Crossroads	3	(20)
Lise Waxer
Is Salsa a Musical Genre?	23	(28)
Marisol Berrios-Miranda
Salsa and Socialism: Dance Music in Cuba, 1959-99	51	(24)
Robin Moore
``Cha-Cha with a Backbeat'': Songs and Stories of Latin Boogaloo	75	(26)
Juan Flores
Salsa Romantica: An Analysis of Style	101	(34)
Christopher Washburne
PART II: PERSONALIZING SALSA
La Lupe, La India, and Celia: Toward a Feminist Genealogy of Salsa Music	135	(26)
Frances R. Aparicio
El Hombre que Respira Debajo del Agua: Trans-Boricua Memories, Identities, and Nationalisms Performed through the Death of Hector Lavoe	161	(26)
Wilson A. Valentin Escobar
Memoirs of a Life in Salsa Catalino ``Tite'' Curet Alonso	187	(14)
Lise Waxer
Poncho Sanchez, Latin Jazz, and the Cuban Son: A Stylistic and Social Analysis	201	(18)
Steven Loza
PART III: RELOCATING SALSA
Llego la Salsa: The Rise of Salsa in Venezuela and Colombia	219	(28)
Lise Waxer
Se Prohibe Escuchar ``Salsa y Control'': When Salsa Arrived in Buenaventura, Colombia	247	(12)
Medardo Arias Satizabal
Lise Waxer
The Making of a Salsa Music Scene in London	259	(30)
Patria Roman-Velazquez
Salsa No Tiene Fronteras: Orquesta de la Luz and the Globalization of Popular Music	289	(24)
Shuhei Hosokawa
Glossary	313	(8)
Contributors	321	(4)
Index	325