Sounding Salsa - Performing Latin Music in New York City

Klappentext Examines how musicians navigated their everyday lives, grappling with the intercultural tensions and commercial pressures that were so pronounced on the salsa scene Zusammenfassung Takes you on an ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s. Written by a musical insider and from the perspective of salsa musicians! this study offers detailed accounts of these musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commercial pressures. It addresses a range of issues! musical and social. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Salsa in New York; 1: Salsa Bands and the performance of Pueble; 2: "The music is so good but the scene is pure dues!": Salsa Musicians; 3: "Play like there's a gun to your head!": The Aesthetics and Performance Practice of Sounding Violence in Salsa; 4: New York Salsa and Drugs: Aesthetics! Performance Practice! Governmental Policy! and the Illicit Drug Trade; 5: La India and the Masquerading of Gender on the Salsa Scene; 6: "They are going to hear this in Puerto Rico. It has got to be good!": The Sound and Style of Salsa

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Washburne
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2008
• EAN: 9781592133161
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-316-1
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Latin American and; Studies in Latin America & Car; Studies in Latin America & Caribbean Music; Studies in Latin America & Car
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries