Made in Nuyorico - Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsas Nuyorican Meanings

List of contents

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Rican/Struction: The Social Life of Salsa  1
Part I: Anatomy of a Salsa Boom, 1964–1979
1. Our Latin Thing: Salsa’s NuYoRican Histories  29
2. “Los Malotes de la Salsa”: Salsa Dons and the Performance of Subjecthood  70
3. Salsa’s Dirty Secret: Liberated Women, Hairy Hippies, and the End of the World  112
Part II: After the Boom is Gone, 1980–2000s
4. Puerto Rico’s (Un)Freedom: The Soundscape of Nation Branding  139
5. Entre la Letra y la Nota: Becoming “El Cantante de los Cantantes”  178
6. (Copy)Rights and Wrongs: “El Cantante” and the Legislation of Creative Labor  213
Notes  245
Sources  283
Index  315

About the author

Marisol Negrón is Associate Professor of American Studies and Latino Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Summary

Marisol Negrón tells the cultural history of salsa over a fifty-year period that begins in 1964, showing how salsa became embedded in Nuyorican identity among New York City’s poor and working-class diasporic Puerto Rican population.

Product details

• Authors: Marisol Negron, Marisol Negrón
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2024
• EAN: 9781478026662
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-2666-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Refiguring American Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries