...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...

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... Puerto Ricans participated in the commodification of salsa while resisting their reduction to objects of consumption. Fania All-Stars cuchifrito circuit dancing fandom salsa boom ...

...After the Boom Is Gone, 1980–2000s 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...

... the salsa boom and the colonial condition of Puerto Ricans. The chapter demonstrates how the narrative of LaVoe as “El Cantante”—of an exceptional sonero beset by life’s tragedies—interpellated him as a failed subject and ignored the very ways in which the artist repudiated the affective economy of pity...