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Books About Salsa Music

If you are interested in learning more about Salsa and other Latin Music and Artists, then pick up one of these great books and have fun reading!

Bibliography

Aparicio, Frances R. Listening to Salsa: gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures. Wesleyan University Press, to appear in June 1997

Boggs, Vernon. Salsiology: Afro-Cuban music and the evolution of salsa in New York City. New York: Excelsior Music Pub. Co.; Bryn Mawr, Pa.: Distributed to the Music trade by Theodore Presser Co., c1992

Calvo Ospina, Hernando. Salsa! : Havana heat, Bronx beat. London: Latin America Research Bureau, 1995

Cool Salsa: bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1994

Esteves, Sandra Maria. Bluestown mockingbird mambo. Houston, Tex.: Arte Publico Press, 1990

Figueroa, Frank M. Encyclopedia of Latin American music in New York. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Pillar Publications, c1994

Gerard, Charley. Salsa! : the rhythm of Latin music. Crown Point, JN: WhiteCliffe Media Co., c1989

Glasser, Ruth. My music is my flag: Puerto Rican musicians and their New York communities 1917-40. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995

Hijuelos, Oscar. The mambo kings play songs of love. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1989

Lecuona, Ernesto. Danzas Cubanas = Cuban dances: suite six compositions for piano sol. New York: E.B. Marks Music Corp., c1937

Leguizamo, John. Mambo mouth: a savage comedy. New York: Bantam Books, 1993

Manuel, Peter, ed. Essays on Cuban Music: Cuban and North American Perspectives. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990.

Manuel, Peter. Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music From Rumba To Reggae. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.

Owens, Thomas. Bebop: the music and its players. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995

Quintero Rivera, A.G. Music, social classes, and the national question of Puerto Rico. Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, c1989

Roberts, John Storm. The Latin Tinge: The impact of Latin American Music on the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Rondon, Cesar Miguel. El libro de la salsa: cronica de la musica del Caribe urbano. Caracas, Venezuela: [s.n.]: Distribuido exclusivamente por Merca Libros, [1980] (Caracas: Editorial Arte)

Steward, Sue. Musica: The Rhythm of Latin America: Salsa, Rumba, Merengue, and More. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999.

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Bibliography
Aparicio, Frances R. Listening to Salsa: gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures. Wesleyan University Press, to appear in June 1997
Boggs, Vernon. Salsiology: Afro-Cuban music and the evolution of salsa in New York City. New York: Excelsior Music Pub. Co.; Bryn Mawr, Pa.: Distributed to the Music trade by Theodore Presser Co., c1992
Calvo Ospina, Hernando. Salsa! : Havana heat, Bronx beat. London: Latin America Research Bureau, 1995
Cool Salsa: bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1994
Esteves, Sandra Maria. Bluestown mockingbird mambo. Houston, Tex.: Arte Publico Press, 1990
Figueroa, Frank M. Encyclopedia of Latin American music in New York. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Pillar Publications, c1994
Gerard, Charley. Salsa! : the rhythm of Latin music. Crown Point, JN: WhiteCliffe Media Co., c1989
Glasser, Ruth. My music is my flag: Puerto Rican musicians and their New York communities 1917-40. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995
Hijuelos, Oscar. The mambo kings play songs of love. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1989
Lecuona, Ernesto. Danzas Cubanas = Cuban dances: suite six compositions for piano sol. New York: E.B. Marks Music Corp., c1937
Leguizamo, John. Mambo mouth: a savage comedy. New York: Bantam Books, 1993
Manuel, Peter, ed. Essays on Cuban Music: Cuban and North American Perspectives. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990.
Manuel, Peter. Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music From Rumba To Reggae. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
Owens, Thomas. Bebop: the music and its players. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
Quintero Rivera, A.G. Music, social classes, and the national question of Puerto Rico. Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, c1989
Roberts, John Storm. The Latin Tinge: The impact of Latin American Music on the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Rondon, Cesar Miguel. El libro de la salsa: cronica de la musica del Caribe urbano. Caracas, Venezuela: [s.n.]: Distribuido exclusivamente por Merca Libros, [1980] (Caracas: Editorial Arte)
Steward, Sue. Musica: The Rhythm of Latin America: Salsa, Rumba, Merengue, and More. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999.