| Uniform title | Libro de la salsa. English |
| Series |
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. ^A322448
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| Contents |
Salsa zero: the 1950s -- The 1960s -- Salsa's the thing -- The New York Sound -- Our (Latin) thing -- The thing in Montuno -- The boom -- Another thing -- All of the salsas. |
| Abstract |
Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music--and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy the author's celebrated El libro de la salsa. The author tells the engaging story of salsa's roots in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela, and of its emergence and development in the 1960s as a distinct musical movement in New York. The author presents salsa as a truly pan-Caribbean phenomenon, emerging in the migrations and interactions, the celebrations and conflicts that marked the region. Although salsa is rooted in urban culture, the author explains, it is also a commercial product produced and shaped by professional musicians, record producers, and the music industry. For this first English-language edition, the author has added a new chapter to bring the story of salsa up to the present. |
| General note | Originally published in Spanish: Caracas : Editorial Arte, 1980. |
| Bibliography note | Includes discography (pages 309-312) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007030141 |
| ISBN | 9780807831298 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807831298 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780807858592 (pbk : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807858595 (pbk : alk. paper) |
