Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music and Puerto Rican Culture (Music Culture S.) - Hardcover

Aparicio, Frances R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819553069 ISBN 13: 9780819553065

Verlag: Wesleyan University Press, 1998

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The pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms. Frances R. Aparicio combines the approaches of musicology and sociology with literary, cultural, Latino, and women's studies to offer a detailed genealogy of Afro-Caribbean music in Puerto Rico. She compares the music to selected Puerto Rican literary texts, then looks both at how Latinos/as in the United States use salsa to reaffirm their cultural identities and how Anglos eroticize and depoliticize it in their adaptations. The close examination of lyrics shows how these songs articulate issues of gender, desire, and conflict, and Aparicio's interviews with Latinas/os reveal how they listen to salsa and the meanings they find in it.

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• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0819553069
• ISBN 13: 9780819553065
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320