Sounding salsa : performing Latin music in New York City /
Christopher Washburne.
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2008.
- xii, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-243) and index.
Salsa bands and the performance of pueble -- The music is so good, but the scene is pure dues!: salsa musicians -- Play like there's a gun to your head!: the aesthetics and performance practice of sounding violence in salsa -- New York salsa and drugs: aesthetics, performance practice, governmental policy, and the illicit drug trade -- La India and the masquerading of gender on the salsa scene -- They are going to hear this in Puerto Rico. It has got to be good!: the sound and style of salsa.