Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Salsa in New York     1
Salsa Bands and the Performance of Pueble     39
"The music is so good, but the scene is pure dues!": Salsa Musicians     77
"Play like there's a gun to your head!": The Aesthetics and Performance Practice of Sounding Violence in Salsa     109
New York Salsa and Drugs: Aesthetics, Performance Practice, Governmental Policy, and the Illicit Drug Trade     130
La India and the Masquerading of Gender on the Salsa Scene     151
"They are going to hear this in Puerto Rico. It has got to be good!": The Sound and Style of Salsa     165
Appendix 1     207
Appendix 2     209
Notes     215
Bibliographic References     229
Index     245