Rhythm & power
Derrick León Washington, Priscilla Renta, Sydney Hutchinson · 2017 · 89 pages
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About this book
The story of New York salsa¿an up-tempo performance of percussive Latin music and Afro-Caribbean-infused dance¿ is one of cultural fusion, artistry, and skilled marketing. A multi-disciplinary collective of scholars illuminate how immigrant and migrant communities in New York City¿most notably from Puerto Rico and ¿nurtured and developed salsa, growing it from a local movement playing out in the city¿s streets and clubs into a global phenomenon. The parameters of the work is expansive as it includes the numerous cultural influences of salsa as it is practiced in New York City and Puerto Rico. The papers interrogate the role of record companies and stores in supporting and promoting the 1970s salsa movement, the ways Puerto Rican nationalism and the Nuyorican Movement continue to influence lyrical content, the hybridization of dance styles, and pay close attention to the circular flows of people and ideas traveling between NYC and the Caribbean.
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