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

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"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 dive...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Aparicio, Frances R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, ©1998.
Series:Music/culture.
Subjects:
Salsa (Music) > Puerto Rico > History and criticism.
Feminism and music.
Salsa > Porto Rico > Histoire et critique.
Féminisme et musique.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Pop Vocal.
Salsa (Music)
Salsa.
Populaire cultuur.
Feminisme.
Puerto Rico.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. The Danza and the Plena: Racializing Women, Feminizing Music
  • A Literary Prelude. Ch. 1. A White Lady Called the Danza. Ch. 2. A Sensual Mulatta Called the Plena. Ch. 3. Desiring the Racial Other: Rosario Ferre's Feminist Reconstruction of Danza and Plena
  • pt. II. The Plural Sites of Salsa
  • A Postmodern Preface. Ch. 4. Situating Salsa. Ch. 5. Ideological Negotiations: Between Hegemony and Resistance. Ch. 6. Cultural (Mis)Translations and Crossover Nightmares
  • pt. III. Dissonant Melodies: Singing Gender, Desire, and Conflict
  • Theoretical Pretexts: Listening (as) Woman. Ch. 7. Woman as Absence: Hetero(homo)sexual Desire in the Bolero. Ch. 8. Patriarchal Synecdoches: Of Women's Butts and Feminist Rebuttals.

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