Listening to Salsa Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures

Name: Listening to Salsa Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures
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ISBN: 9780819563088

ISBN-10: 0819563080

ISBN-13: 9780819563088

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Authors: Frances R. Aparicio

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For Anglos, the pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms. Frances R. Aparicio places this music in context by combining the approaches of musicology and sociology with literary, cultural, Latino, and women's studies. She offers a detailed genealogy of Afro-Caribbean music in Puerto Rico, comparing it to selected Puerto Rican literary texts, then looks both at how Latinos/as in the US have used salsa to reaffirm their cultural identities and how Anglos have eroticized and depoliticized it in their adaptations. Aparicio's detailed examination of lyrics shows how…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.02" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Frances R. Aparicio is professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.



List of Illustrations


Preface



The Danza and the Plena: Racializing Women, Feminizing Music


A Literary Prelude


A White Lady Called the Danza


A Sensual Mulatta Called the Plena


Desiring the Racial Other: Rosario Ferre's Feminist


Reconstructions of Danza and Plena



The Plural Sites of Salsa


A Postmodern Preface


Situating Salsa


Ideological Negotiations: Between Hegemony and Resistance


Cultural (Mis)Translations and Crossover Nightmares



Dissonant Melodies: Singing Gender, Desire, and Conflict


Theoretical Pretexts: Listening (as) Woman


Woman as Absence: Hetero(homo)sexual Desire in the Bolero


Patriarchal Synecdoches: Of Women's Butts and Feminist Rebuttals


Singing the Gender Wars


Singing Female Subjectivities



Asi Somos, Asi Son: Rewriting Salsa


Listening to the Listeners: An Introduction


Asi Son: Construction Woman


Asi Somos: Rewriting Patriarchy


Afterword


Notes


Index of Songs and Recordings


General Index