In the 1920s and 30s; musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York; lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and 50s; the big-band mambo dance scene at the famed Palladium Ballroom was the stuff of legend; while modern-day music history was being made as the masters of Afro-Cuban and jazz idiom conspired to create Cubop; the first incarnation of Latin jazz. Then; in the 1960s; as the Latino population came to exceed a million strong; a new generation of New York Latinos; mostly Puerto Ricans born and raised in the city; went on to create the music that came to be called salsa; which continues to enjoy avid popularity around the world. And now; the children of the mambo and salsa generation are contributing to the making of hip hop and reviving ancestral Afro-Caribbean forms like Cuban rumba; Puerto Rican bomba; and Dominican palo.Salsa Rising provides the first full-length historical account of Latin Music in this city guided by close critical attention to issues of tradition and experimentation; authenticity and dilution; and the often clashing roles of cultural communities and the commercial recording industry in the shaping of musical practices and tastes. It is a history not only of the music; the changing styles and practices; the innovators; venues and songs; but also of the music as part of the larger social history; ranging from immigration and urban history; to the formation of communities; to issues of colonialism; race and class as they bear on and are revealed by the trajectory of the music. Author Juan Flores brings a wide range of people in the New York Latin music field into his work; including musicians; producers; arrangers; collectors; journalists; and lay and academic scholars; enriching Salsa Rising with a unique level of engagement with and interest in Latin American communities and musicians themselves.
#3575345 in eBooks 2016-03-23 2016-03-23File Name: B01DC1YEG4
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