Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts. It consists of thirteen newly commissioned essays and four reprinted essays that explore the diffusion of this popular sound from its Hispanic Caribbean origins to audiences around the world. Drawing upon interviews, field observations, oral histories, personal memoirs, archival resources, and musical analysis, the volume sheds new light on current debates about race and ethnicity, class hierarchy, gender roles, and generational differences.

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LOCAT1NG SALSA 21

salsa music , Puerto Rican , clave

PERSONAL1Z1NG SALSA 137

La Lupe , santeria , Brenda K

Memoits of a Life in Salsa 189

salsa , Ismael Miranda , son montuno

RELOCAT1NG SALSA 219

Caracas , salsa dance , Lebron Brothers

The Making of a Salsa Music Scene in London 259

disc jockeys , Cuba , Colombian

Glossary 313

santeria , joropo , charanga