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.
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