Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music (Perspectives in Globalpop)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (678 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0815340206 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 350 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the AuthorLise Waxer is Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. She received her PhD. She is in the process of completing her first book, The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves,and Local Popular Culture in Columbia. She has conducted extensive ethnographic and historical research on salsa music and its Cuban roots and also performs Latin jazz and salsa on the piano. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998
bODYbOD said Great book BUT. A really well done book. Only slight criticism is that I feel the author in relating the ROOTS/EVOLUTION of Salsa seems to have interviewed people who weren't actually involved in the NY TRIBORO / Puert Rican / Cuban Salsa creative process. Instead Ms Waxer mostly quot
Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts.
She has conducted extensive ethnographic and historical research on salsa music and its Cuban roots and also performs Latin jazz and salsa on the piano. She received her PhD. She is in the process of completing her first book, The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves,and Local Popular Culture in Columbia. Lise Waxer is Assistant Profes