Listening to Salsa : Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aparicio, Frances R.

Series:

Music Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salsa (Music)--History and criticism--Puerto Rico.

Salsa (Music).

Feminism and music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Portrays the complex politics of gender, sex, class, and race in Puerto Rican salsa music.

Contents:

Cover; Listening to Salsa; MUSIC / CULTURE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Illustrations; Preface; Part I The Danza and the Plena: Racializing Women, Feminizing Music; A Literary Prelude; Chapter 1 A White Lady Called the Danza; Piano music for the danza "Laura y Georgina"; Chapter 2 A Sensual Mulatta Called the Plena; Rafael Cortijo playing the timbales; Chapter 3 Desiring the Racial Other: Rosario Ferré's Feminist Reconstructions of Danza and Plena; Part II The Plural Sites of Salsa; A Postmodern Preface; Chapter 4 Situating Salsa

Double article reviewing salsa concert and rock concertOrquesta de la Luz; Chapter 5 Ideological Negotiations: Between Hegemony and Resistance; Chapter 6 Cultural (Mis)Translations and Crossover Nightmares; El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico; Part III Dissonant Melodies: Singing Gender, Desire, and Conflict; Theoretical Pretexts: Listening (as) Woman; Chapter 7 Woman as Absence: Hetero(homo)sexual Desire in the Bolero; Daniel Santos, El inigualable; Chapter 8 Patriarchal Synecdoches: Of Women's Butts and Feminist Rebuttals; The New Xavier Cugat Orchestra CD cover; Illustration in Abran paso

Chapter 9 Singing the Gender WarsChapter 10 Singing Female Subjectivities; La Lupe; Part IV Así Somos, Así Son: Rewriting Salsa; Listening to the Listeners: An Introduction; Chapter 11 Así Son: Constructing Woman; Chapter 12 Así Somos: Rewriting Patriarchy; Afterword; Notes; Index of Songs and Recordings; General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8195-6994-1