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Sounding salsa : performing Latin music in New York City
- Title
- Sounding salsa : performing Latin music in New York City / Christopher Washburne.
- Author
- Washburne, Christopher.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 254 p. : ill., music; 23 cm.
- 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 musican, examines the organisational structures, recording processes, rehearsing and gigging of salsa bands.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-243) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc D 13-1095
- ISBN
- 9781592133154 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1592133150 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781592133161 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1592133169 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007045407
- OCLC
- 176982526
- Author
- Washburne, Christopher.
- Title
- Sounding salsa : performing Latin music in New York City / Christopher Washburne.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2008.
- Series
- Studies in Latin American and Caribbean musicStudies in Latin American and Caribbean music.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-243) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 13-1095JNE 08-195