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The Book of Salsa
Cesar Miguel Rondon
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Description for The Book of Salsa
Paperback. Presents salsa as a pan-Caribbean phenomenon, emerging in the migrations and interactions, the celebrations and conflicts that marked the region. This book explains that it is also a commercial product produced and shaped by professional musicians, record producers, and the music industry. Translator(s): Aparicio, Frances R.; White, Jackie. Series: Caravan Book. Num Pages: 336 pages, discography, index. BIC Classification: 1KL; AVGW. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
This book provides the authoritative history of salsa.Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive chronicle 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 Cesar Miguel Rondon's celebrated El libro de la salsa.Rondon tells the engaging story of salsa's roots in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela, and of its emergence ... Read more
This book provides the authoritative history of salsa.Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive chronicle 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 Cesar Miguel Rondon's celebrated El libro de la salsa.Rondon tells the engaging story of salsa's roots in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela, and of its emergence ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807858592
SKU
V9780807858592
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99-15
About Cesar Miguel Rondon
CESAR MIGUEL RONDON is a journalist, author, and radio and television producer with Corporacion Televen in Caracas, Venezuela. FRANCES R. APARICIO is professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. JACKIE WHITE is assistant professor of English at Lewis University.
Reviews for The Book of Salsa
"Salsa music [is] now globalized....It is time to introduce Rondon's foundational book to the United States and to the wider English-speaking world. - Frances R. Aparicio, from the Translator's Note"