NMAH copy 39088008652455 has bookplate: Purchased with Support from SI Fund for Latino Initiatives.
Contents:
pt. I. The Danza and the Plena: Racializing Women, Feminizing Music -- A Literary Prelude. Ch. 1. A White Lady Called the Danza. Ch. 2. A Sensual Mulatta Called the Plena. Ch. 3. Desiring the Racial Other: Rosario Ferre's Feminist Reconstruction of Danza and Plena -- pt. II. The Plural Sites of Salsa -- A Postmodern Preface. Ch. 4. Situating Salsa. Ch. 5. Ideological Negotiations: Between Hegemony and Resistance. Ch. 6. Cultural (Mis)Translations and Crossover Nightmares -- pt. III. Dissonant Melodies: Singing Gender, Desire, and Conflict -- Theoretical Pretexts: Listening (as) Woman. Ch. 7. Woman as Absence: Hetero(homo)sexual Desire in the Bolero. Ch. 8. Patriarchal Synecdoches: Of Women's Butts and Feminist Rebuttals. Ch. 9. Singing the Gender Wars. Ch. 10. Singing Female Subjectivities. pt. iv Asi Somos, Asi Son: Rewriting Salsa -- Listening to the Listeners: An Introduction. Ch. 11. Asi Son: Constructing Woman. Ch. 12 Asi Somos: Rewriting Patriarchy
Summary:
"Insightful study of Afro-Caribbean salsa music among Puerto Ricans relates different meanings in salsa lyrics to issues of gender, race, class, and national identities, both in Puerto Rico and Latino communities in the US. Aparicio, a literary critic, uses a postmodern approach to analyze diverse musical texts"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
