{"product_id":"listening-to-salsa-gender-latin-popular-music-and-puerto-rican-cultures-music-culture","title":"Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures (Music \/ Culture)","description":"Portrays the complex politics of gender, sex, class, and race in Puerto Rican salsa music.\n\nWinner 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)\n\nWinner of IASPM's 1999 Woody Guthrie Award\n\nFor 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.\n\nAparicio'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.\"\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0819563080\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0819563080.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Aparicio, Frances R.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41456080257082,"sku":"DBV.0819563080.A","price":9.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0819563080-0.jpg?v=1781074508","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/listening-to-salsa-gender-latin-popular-music-and-puerto-rican-cultures-music-culture","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}