Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City

Contents

• Table of Contents: Acknowledgements 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