The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City

The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
ISBN-10
0807831298
ISBN-13
9780807831298
Category
Music
Pages
340
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Univ of North Carolina Press
Author
César Miguel Rondón

Description

Rondón 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. Rondón 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, Rondón explains, it is also a commercial product produced and shaped by professional musicians, record producers, and the music industry. --from publisher description.

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