| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 290 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Music/culture
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Music/culture.
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| Note |
"Wesleyan University Press." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
pt. I. 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. 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. |
| Summary |
"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. http://www.loc.gov/hlas |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Salsa (Music) -- Puerto Rico -- History and criticism.
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Salsa (Music) |
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Puerto Rico. |
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Feminism and music.
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Feminism and music. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aparicio, Frances R. Listening to salsa. Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, ©1998 0819553069 (DLC) 97009121 (OCoLC)36417932 |
| ISBN |
0585370907 (electronic book) |
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9780585370903 (electronic book) |
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9780819569943 (electronic book) |
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0819569941 (electronic book) |
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0819553069 |
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9780819553065 |
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0819563080 |
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9780819563088 |
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