Listening to salsa
Subtitle: gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures
By: Frances R. Aparicio.
Series: Music/culture
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Salsa (Music) -- Puerto Rico -- History and criticism; Feminism and music
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"Wesleyan University Press."