Listening to Salsa [[electronic resource] ] : Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures

• Autore: Aparicio Frances R
• Pubblicazione: Middletown, : Wesleyan University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.484
• Soggetto topico: Salsa (Music) - History and criticism - Puerto Rico; Feminism and music; Music History & Criticism, Popular - Jazz, Rock, etc; Music; Music, Dance, Drama & Film
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Listening to Salsa; MUSIC / CULTURE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Illustrations; Preface; Part I The Danza and the Plena: Racializing Women, Feminizing Music; A Literary Prelude; Chapter 1 A White Lady Called the Danza; Piano music for the danza "Laura y Georgina"; Chapter 2 A Sensual Mulatta Called the Plena; Rafael Cortijo playing the timbales; Chapter 3 Desiring the Racial Other: Rosario Ferré's Feminist Reconstructions of Danza and Plena; Part II The Plural Sites of Salsa; A Postmodern Preface; Chapter 4 Situating Salsa ; Double article reviewing salsa concert and rock concertOrquesta de la Luz; Chapter 5 Ideological Negotiations: Between Hegemony and Resistance; Chapter 6 Cultural (Mis)Translations and Crossover Nightmares; El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico; Part III Dissonant Melodies: Singing Gender, Desire, and Conflict; Theoretical Pretexts: Listening (as) Woman; Chapter 7 Woman as Absence: Hetero(homo)sexual Desire in the Bolero; Daniel Santos, El inigualable; Chapter 8 Patriarchal Synecdoches: Of Women's Butts and Feminist Rebuttals; The New Xavier Cugat Orchestra CD cover; Illustration in Abran paso ; Chapter 9 Singing the Gender WarsChapter 10 Singing Female Subjectivities; La Lupe; Part IV Así Somos, Así Son: Rewriting Salsa; Listening to the Listeners: An Introduction; Chapter 11 Así Son: Constructing Woman; Chapter 12 Así Somos: Rewriting Patriarchy; Afterword; Notes; Index of Songs and Recordings; General Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Portrays the complex politics of gender, sex, class, and race in Puerto Rican salsa music.
• Titolo autorizzato: Listening to Salsa
• ISBN: 0-8195-6994-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785900203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Music Culture