Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Contributors Preface Part I: Locating Salsa 1. Situating Salsa: Latin Music at the Crossroads, Lise Waxer 2. Is Salsa a Musical Genre? Marisol Berríos-Miranda 3. Salsa and Socialism: Dance Music in Cuba, 1959-99, Robin Moore 4. Cha Cha with a Backbeat: Songs and Stories of Latin Boogaloo, Juan Flores 5. Salsa Romántica: An Analysis of Style, Christopher Washburne Part II: Personalizing Salsa 6. La Lupe, La India and Celia: Toward a Feminist Genealogy of Salsa Music, Frances R. Aparicio 7. El Hombre que Respira Debajo del Agua: Trans-Boricua Memories, Identities and Nationalisms Performed Through the Death of Héctor Lavor Wilson A. Valentín Escobar 8. Memoirs of a Life in Salsa, Catalino Tite Curet Alonso (Translated by Lise Waxer) 9. Poncho Sánchez, Latin Jazz, and the Cuban Son: A Stylistic and Social Analysis, Steven Loza Part III: Relocating Salsa 10. Llegó la Salsa: The Rise of Salsa in Venezuela and Columbia, Lise Waxer 11. Se Prohibe Escuchar Salsa y Control: When Salsa Arrived in Buenaventura, Columbia Medardo Arias Santizábal (Translated by Lise Waxer) 12. The Making of a Salsa Music Scene in London, Patria Román-Velázquez 13. Salsa No Tiene Fronteras: Orquesta de la Luz and the Globilazation of Popular Music, Shuhei Hosokawa Glossary Index

About the Author

Lise Waxer is Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. She received her PhD. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. 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 is in the process of completing her first book, The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves,and Local Popular Culture in Columbia.