- Series: Music Culture
- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Wesleyan; 1st edition (October 29, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0819564427
- ISBN-13: 978-0819564429
Salsa is a popular dance music developed by Puerto Ricans in New York
City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms. By the 1980s,
the Colombian metropolis of Cali emerged on the global stage as an
important center for salsa consumption and performance. Despite their
geographic distance from the Caribbean and from Hispanic Caribbean
migrants in New York City, Calenos (people from Cali) claim unity with
Cubans, Puerto Ricans and New York Latinos by virtue of their having
adopted salsa as their own. The City of Musical Memory explores this
local adoption of salsa and its Afro-Caribbean antecedents in relation
to national and regional musical styles, shedding light on salsa's
spread to other Latin American cities. Cali's case disputes the
prevalent academic notion that live music is more "real" or "authentic"
than its recorded versions, since in this city salsa recordings were
until recently much more important than musicians themselves, and
continued to be influential in the live scene. This book makes valuable
contributions to ongoing discussions about the place of technology in
music culture and the complex negotiations of local and transnational
cultural identities.
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