... Chapter 2 maps how the musical collaborations between Willie Colón and Héctor LaVoe helped constitute salsa as a site for the production of heteronormative pleasure and possibility. The chapter traces how songs, album covers, publicity posters, and performances on- and offstage exploited rather...

...Roots of Salsa:<subtitle>Afro-Latin@ Popular Music</subtitle> ...

... The introduction provides an overview of Puerto Rican history in New York, Latin music in the city, and salsa’s evolving meanings since the 1970s. Negrón provides a necessary background for understanding salsa within the Nuyorican Arts Movement, as Black diasporic expressive culture...

...Anatomy of a Salsa Boom, 1964–1979 Chapter 1 takes as its point of departure the film Our Latin Thing, a musical documentary of the legendary Fania-All Stars 1971 concert at New York’s Cheetah Lounge. With a vision that extended beyond salsa to “the culture that was behind the music,” first...

... Chapter 1 takes as its point of departure the film Our Latin Thing, a musical documentary of the legendary Fania-All Stars 1971 concert at New York’s Cheetah Lounge. With a vision that extended beyond salsa to “the culture that was behind the music,” first-time director Leon Gast intermingled...

... Fania All-Stars cuchifrito circuit dancing fandom salsa boom ...

... Seville Expo 1992 nation branding economic development Puerto Rico es salsa cultural nationalism ...

... Chapter 4 traces the attempt of Puerto Rico governor Rafael Hernández Colón to mobilize salsa’s Nuyorican meanings and global popularity as part of a national branding campaign curated for the Puerto Rico exhibit at the 1992 Universal Expo in Seville. Mobilized as a repository of Puerto Rico’s...