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Sounding salsa : performing Latin music in New York City / Christopher Washburne.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3535.5 .W37 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Washburne, Christopher.
- Series:
- Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Salsa (Music)--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.
- Salsa (Music).
- Salsa (Music)--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.
- Salsa (Music)--Social aspects.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 254 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-243) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781592133154
- 1592133150
- 9781592133161
- 1592133169
- OCLC:
- 176982526
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