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Cuban women and salsa : to the beat of their own drum / Delia Poey.
- Title
- Cuban women and salsa : to the beat of their own drum / Delia Poey.
- Author
- Poey, Delia.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | ML3535.5 .P64 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- pages cm
- Summary
- "Although Salsa has garnered interest from various disciplines in the last fifteen years, the contributions of female performers has been largely ignored. This book adds to the field by tracing the participation of Cuban and Cuban-American women as either solo artists or lead vocals in the development and popularization of Salsa, highlighting their staging of gender, race and nation"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. From the Streets to the Nightclub: Rita Montaner and Celeste Mendoza as Salsa Precursors -- 2. Celia Cruz: From La guarachera de Cuba to the Queen of Salsa -- 3. La Lupe: The Excessive Performance of Race and Gender -- 4. Crossing Over: Gloria Estefan's Performance of the/on the Hyphen -- 5. No se parece a nada/ Not Like Anything Else: Albita Rodriguez Bends the Rules -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9781137382818 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2014017864
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library