Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City

By Christopher Washburne

Book Overview

This ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s offers detailed accounts of musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commercial pressures. The author, himself an accomplished salsa musican, examines the organisational structures, recording processes, rehearsing and gigging of salsa bands.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592133150
• ISBN13: 9781592133154
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"