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The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City (Latin America in Translation En Traduccion En Traducao)

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0807831298, 9780807831298, 9780807886397
LCC
ML3475 .R6613 2008
Open Library ID
OL16954932M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
959 kB (982413 bytes)
Pages
352\353
Topic
Art Music: Guitar
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 César Miguel Rondón's celebrated El libro de la salsa.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. For this first English-language edition, Rondón has added a new chapter to bring the story of salsa up to the present.

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