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 Musician, Examines The Organizational Structures, Recording Processes, Rehearsing And Gigging Of Salsa Bands. Salsa Bands And The Performance Of Pueble -- The Music Is So Good, But The Scene Is Pure Dues!: Salsa Musicians -- Play Like There's A Gun To Your Head!: The Aesthetics And Performance Practice Of Sounding Violence In Salsa -- New York Salsa And Drugs: Aesthetics, Performance Practice, Governmental Policy, And The Illicit Drug Trade -- La India And The Masquerading Of Gender On The Salsa Scene -- They Are Going To Hear This In Puerto Rico. It Has Got To Be Good!: The Sound And Style Of Salsa. Christopher Washburne. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [230]-243) And Index.

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Sounding Salsa
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Salsa in New York
1 Salsa Bands and the Performance of Pueble
2 “The music is so good, but the scene is pure dues!”: Salsa Musicians
3 “Play like there’s a gun to your head!”: The Aesthetics and Performance Practice of Sounding Violence in Salsa
4 New York Salsa and Drugs: Aesthetics, Performance Practice, Governmental Policy, and the Illicit Drug Trade
5 La India and the Masquerading of Gender on the Salsa Scene
6 “They are going to hear this in Puerto Rico. It has got to be good!”: The Sound and Style of Salsa
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Notes
Bibliographic References
Index
Illustrations
Figure 1.1 Domingo Quiñones singing at a street festival in Spanish Harlem in 1998
Figure 1.2 Mural entitled “Nuestro Barrio” on a building facade in Spanish Harlem, 1998
Figure 1.3 Bicycle revelers in Spanish Harlem celebrating during the Puerto Rican Day Parade
Figure 1.4 Machito Square in El Barrio
Figure 1.5 Tito Puente Way in El Barrio
Figure 1.6 Ralph Mercado and DJ Ricky backstage at the Latin Quarter in New York, 2005
Figure 1.7 Sergio George at his home studio, Teaneck, New Jersey, 2002
Figure 1.8 Marc Anthony backstage before his salsa debut in Madison Square Garden, 1994
Figure 1.9 Tito Puente and Christopher Washburne performing at SOBs in New York, 1998
Figure 2.1 The Ray Sepulveda Band performing at Orchard Beach in 1995
Figure 2.2. Dance floor of the Latin Quarter in New York, 2005
Figure 3.1 Pete “El Conde” Rodriguez performing at Orchard Beach in 1992
Figure 3.2 LP Cover of Willie Colón’s Lo Mato
Figure 3.3. LP Cover of Willie Colón’s The Big Break—La Gran Fuga
Figure 3.4. LP Cover of Willie Colón’s Cosa Nuestra
Figure 3.5 Eddie Palmieri with Christopher Washburne, 2003
Figure 4.1 Annual report on crime
Figure 5.1 Cover of India’s debut recording “‘Llegó La India”
Figure 5.2 Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco performing in Madison Square Garden, 1994
Scheme 6.1 Typical stage setup for a salsa band

This ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s is the first of its kind. Written by a musical insider and from the perspective of salsa musicians, Sounding Salsa is a pioneering study that offers detailed accounts of these musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commercial pressures. Christopher Washburne, himself an accomplished salsa musician, examines the organizational structures, recording processes, rehearsing, and gigging of salsa bands, paying particular attention to how they created a sense of community, privileged the people over artistic and commercial concerns, and incited cultural pride during performances.
Sounding Salsa addresses a range of issues, musical and social. Musically, Washburne examines sound structure, salsa aesthetics, and performance practice, along with the influences of Puerto Rican music. Socially, he considers the roles of the illicit drug trade, gender, and violence in shaping the salsa experience. Highly readable, Sounding Salsa offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on a musical movement that became a social phenomenon.

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

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