Listening to salsa : gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures /

Aparicio, Frances R.

Listening to salsa : gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures / Frances R. Aparicio. - Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1998. - xxi, 290 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. - Music/culture .

"Wesleyan University Press."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Insightful study of Afro-Caribbean salsa music among Puerto Ricans relates different meanings in salsa lyrics to issues of gender, race, class, and national identities, both in Puerto Rico and Latino communities in the US. Aparicio, a literary critic, uses a postmodern approach to analyze diverse musical texts"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

0819553069 (cl : alk. paper) 0819563080 (pa)

97009121


Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Salsa (Music)--History and criticism.--Puerto Rico
Feminism and music.
Salsa (Música)--Historia y crítica--Puerto Rico.
Feminismo y música.
Cultura--Puerto Rico.

ML 3535.5 / A639l 1998

781.64