Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures

by Frances R. Aparicio

Portrays the complex politics of gender, sex, class, and race in Puerto Rican salsa music.

Winner 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)

Winner of IASPM's 1999 Woody Guthrie Award

For Anglos, the pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819563080
• ISBN13: 9780819563088
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"