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- The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City (Latin America in Translation)
The Book of Salsa A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
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Latin America in Translation
Author:
César Miguel Rondón
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 musicand 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-rea
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ding and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy C©sar Miguel Rond³n's celebrated
El libro de la salsa
.Rond³n 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. Rond³n 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, Rond³n 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, Rond³n has added a new chapter to bring the story of salsa up to the present.
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ISBN-13:
9780807858592
ISBN-10:
0807858595
Publication Date:
3/10/2008
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352
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