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Salsa Music as Expressive Liberation
Titel:
Salsa Music as Expressive Liberation
Auteur:
Berrios-Miranda Marisol
Verschenen in:
Centro journal
Paginering:
Jaargang XVI (2004) nr. 2 pagina's xx
Jaar:
2004
Inhoud:
In the span of a singe decade, the 1970s, young people in urban centers all over Latin America came to embrace salsa music as their preferred musical style and expression. Salsa’s unprecedented international popularity resulted from the confluence of several distinct social conditions and historical events: the Puerto Rican dilemma of colonial status, the civil rights and black pride movements in the U.S., the Cuban revolution’s promise of upliftment for the lower classes, urban migration, and the need for a Latino alternative to the hegemony of Anglo rock. In this paper I will argue that salsa’s popularity needs to be understood in terms of a musical sound and a social style that responded effectively to these circumstances, captured beautifully in the film Our Latin Thing. I propose, furthermore, that the colonial dilemma of Puerto Ricans in the island and in New York motivated their creative contributions to salsa, which they experienced as a form expressive liberation and decolonization.
Uitgever:
City University of New York : Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños (provided by DOAJ)
Bronbestand:
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
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