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020 a| 0819553069 (cl : alk. paper);

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050 00 a| ML3535.5b| .A63 1998;

100 1 a| Aparicio, Frances R.=| ^A389975;

245 10 a| Listening to salsa :b| gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures /c| Frances R. Aparicio.;

300 a| xxi, 290 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Music/culture;

500 a| "Wesleyan University Press.";

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and indexes.;

586 a| Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 1998;

505 0 a| Part I. 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 reconstruction of danza and plena -- Part II. The plural sites of salsa -- A postmodern preface -- Situating salsa -- Ideological negotiations: between hegemony and resistance -- Cultural (mis)translations and crossover nightmares -- Part III. 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 -- Part IV. Asi Somos, Asi Son: rewriting salsa -- Listening to the listeners: an introduction -- Asi Son: constructing woman -- Asi Somos: rewriting patriarchy.;

520 a| This study of Afro-Caribbean salsa music explores different meanings in salsa lyrics to issues of gender, race, class, and national identities, both in Puerto Rico and Latino communities in the US. The author, a literary critic, uses a postmodern approach to analyze diverse musical texts. 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. The author combines the approaches of musicology and sociology with literary, cultural, Latino, and women's studies to offer a detailed genealogy of Afro-Caribbean music in Puerto Rico. She compares the music to selected Puerto Rican literary texts, then looks both at how Latinos/as in the United States use salsa to reaffirm their cultural identities and how Anglos eroticize and depoliticize it in their adaptations. The close examination of lyrics shows how these songs articulate issues of gender, desire, and conflict, and the author's interviews with Latinas/os reveal how they listen to salsa and the meanings they find in it.;

650 0 a| Salsa (Music)z| Puerto Ricox| History and criticism.=| ^A538633;

650 0 a| Feminism and music.=| ^A273459;

830 0 a| Music/culture.=| ^A390481;

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Listening to salsa : gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures / Frances R. Aparicio.

Author/creator	Aparicio, Frances R.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, ©1998.
Description	xxi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Salsa (Music)--Puerto Rico. --History and criticism. Feminism and music.

Series	Music/culture Music/culture. ^A390481
Contents	Part I. 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 reconstruction of danza and plena -- Part II. The plural sites of salsa -- A postmodern preface -- Situating salsa -- Ideological negotiations: between hegemony and resistance -- Cultural (mis)translations and crossover nightmares -- Part III. 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 -- Part IV. Asi Somos, Asi Son: rewriting salsa -- Listening to the listeners: an introduction -- Asi Son: constructing woman -- Asi Somos: rewriting patriarchy.
Abstract	This study of Afro-Caribbean salsa music explores different meanings in salsa lyrics to issues of gender, race, class, and national identities, both in Puerto Rico and Latino communities in the US. The author, a literary critic, uses a postmodern approach to analyze diverse musical texts. 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. The author combines the approaches of musicology and sociology with literary, cultural, Latino, and women's studies to offer a detailed genealogy of Afro-Caribbean music in Puerto Rico. She compares the music to selected Puerto Rican literary texts, then looks both at how Latinos/as in the United States use salsa to reaffirm their cultural identities and how Anglos eroticize and depoliticize it in their adaptations. The close examination of lyrics shows how these songs articulate issues of gender, desire, and conflict, and the author's interviews with Latinas/os reveal how they listen to salsa and the meanings they find in it.
General note	"Wesleyan University Press."
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Awards note	Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 1998
LCCN	97009121
ISBN	0819553069 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN	0819563080 (pa)

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