{"product_id":"listening-to-salsa-frances-r-aparicio-9780819563088","title":"Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePortrays the complex politics of gender, sex, class, and race in Puerto Rican salsa music.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and culture (1999)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Winner of IASPM's 1999 Woody Guthrie Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Anglos, the pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino\/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms. Frances R. Aparicio places this music in context by combining the approaches of musicology and sociology with literary, cultural, Latino, and women's studies. She offers a detailed genealogy of Afro-Caribbean music in Puerto Rico, comparing it to selected Puerto Rican literary texts, then looks both at how Latinos\/as in the US have used salsa to reaffirm their cultural identities and how Anglos have eroticized and depoliticized it in their adaptations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAparicio's detailed examination of lyrics shows how these songs articulate issues of gender, desire, and conflict, and her interviews with Latinas\/os reveal how they listen to salsa and the meanings they find in it. What results is a comprehensive view \"that deploys both musical and literary texts as equally significant cultural voices in exploring larger questions about the power of discourse, gender relations, intercultural desire, race, ethnicity, and class.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frances R. Aparicio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819563080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819563088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.05w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/1997 pg. 59","brand":"Frances R. Aparicio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448989233407,"sku":"9780819563088","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d816c2d0-1085-41c7-a712-32da73be152b.jpg?v=1777261464","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/listening-to-salsa-frances-r-aparicio-9780819563088","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}