Salsiology: Afro-Cuban Music and the Evolution of Salsa in New York City

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Boggs presents a readable, exciting history of Salsa, showing how Afro-Cuban music was embraced in New York City and how it has undergone cycles of popularity and been replicated abroad. From its roots in Cuba through present-day Salsa clubs, Boggs provides a tour of a popular music form that has had a significant impact on the Latin community as well as contemporary musicians and composers. Extensively illustrated with photographs of the bands and clubs as well as the key leaders and promoters, the book also ...
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Boggs presents a readable, exciting history of Salsa, showing how Afro-Cuban music was embraced in New York City and how it has undergone cycles of popularity and been replicated abroad. From its roots in Cuba through present-day Salsa clubs, Boggs provides a tour of a popular music form that has had a significant impact on the Latin community as well as contemporary musicians and composers. Extensively illustrated with photographs of the bands and clubs as well as the key leaders and promoters, the book also contains interviews with top performers and others instrumental in making salsa what it is today.
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VERNON W. BOGGS is Assistant Professor of Sociology at York College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
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Table of Contents

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Preface
Prologue
I From Whence Comes the Music
1 The Roots 5
2 What Makes Rhumba? 23
3 The Form and Formation of the Rumba in Cuba 29
4 Ponce, The Danza, and The National Question: Notes Toward a Sociology of Puerto Rican Music 43
5 Bumbum and the Beginnings of La Plena 59
6 Popular Music in Puerto Rico: Toward An Anthropology of Salsa 69
II Sketches of Pioneers and Players
7 Founding Fathers and Changes in Cuban Music called Salsa 95
8 Latin Ladies & Afro-Hispanic Music: On the Periphery but not Forgotten 107
III Popularization of Afro-Cuban Music in New York
9 The Palladium Ballroom and Other Venues: Showcases for Latin Music in N.Y.C. 125
10 Dick "Ricardo" Sugar: Salsero de Salseros 133
11 Ernie Ensley, Palladium Mambero 143
12 Symphony Sid, D.J.: According to Jack Hooke 155
13 Salsa meets Jazz at the Village Gate 165
14 Visions and Views of a Salsa Promoter Izzy "Mr. Salsa" Sanabria: Popularizing Music 185
15 Al Santiago: Alegre Superstar 201
16 The Cheetah: A Pictorial Essay 229
IV The Transculturational Process
17 Afro-American Latinized Rhythms 237
18 Salsa's to New York like an Apple's to Sauce! 249
19 Johnny "Mr. Boogaloo Blues" Colon 261
20 A "bottom man" speaks out: Andy Gonzalez, Bassist 285
21 Back-to-Africa: The "reverse" transculturation of Salsa/Cuban Popular Music 299
V Salsiological Issues Today
22 Secrets of Salsa Rhythm: Piano with Hot Sauce 311
23 Papo Pepin: Mr. Tumbao 325
24 The Profile of a Bronx Salsero: Salsa's Still Alive! 339
25 Salsa Music: The Latent Function of Slavery and Racialism 351
Epilogue: The Author as Salsero
26 The Odyssey of Desperately Seeking Clave: Researching Afro-Hispanic Music 361
Appendix: Musical Score: Gonna Salsalido 371
Selected Bibliography 381
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