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Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae by Peter Manuel Publisher Comments Music is the most popular and dynamic aspect of Caribbean expressive culture. From the well-known genres—salsa, merengue, reggae, calypso, and bachata—to more localized forms like chutney and kaseko, this wide-ranging book surveys Caribbean music's... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $26.78 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic 
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Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene by Frederick Moehn Publisher Comments Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Fallin' Up: My Story by Taboo Publisher Comments Taboo, Grammy Award-winning performing artist and founding member of the Black Eyed Peas, shares the inspiring story of his rise from the mean streets of East L.A. to the heights of international fame. Few bands can ever hope to achieve the sort of... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Faces of Salsa: A Spoken History of the Music by Leonardo Padura Fuentes Publisher Comments In this collection of masterfully crafted interviews with some of the most famous creators of the music we call Salsa, prizewining Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura Fuentes explores the genesis of the music, its rise in popularity, its social context, and... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco by Geoffrey Baker Publisher Comments Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology’s cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reggaeton (Refiguring American Music) by Raquel Rivera Publisher Comments A hybrid of reggae and rap, reggaeton is a music with Spanish-language lyrics and Caribbean aesthetics that has taken Latin America, the United States, and the world by storm. Superstars—including Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Ivy Queen—garner... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mambo Diablo: My Journey with Tito Puente by Joe Conzo Publisher Comments Countless stories have been written about Tito Puente's percussive musical abilities, but never before have his talent and intuition, as well as the mishaps and controversies surrounding him, been presented with such vivacity and love, chronicling the... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover
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Queens of Havana: The Amazing Adventures of Anacaona, Cuba's Legendary All-Girl Dance Band by Alicia Castro Synopsis The 1930s saw Havana undergoing a seismic cultural renaissance. At night in the aires libres (open air cafes), tourists and foreign investors rubbed shoulders with the likes of Ernest Hemingway as they sipped cocktails, cavorted with Cuban beauties, and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica (Music in American Life) by John H Mcdowell Synopsis An in-depth examination of the Mexican ballad tradition of the corrido and its complex relationship with... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship by Idelber (edt) Avelar Publisher Comments Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the vital connections between popular music and citizenship in Brazil. While popular music has served as an effective resource for communities to stake... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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City of Musical Memory : Salsa, Record Grooves and Popular Culture in Cali, Colombia (02 Edition) by Lise A. Waxer Publisher Comments Salsa is a popular dance music developed by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms. By the 1980s, the Colombian metropolis of Cali emerged on the global stage as an important center for salsa consumption and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $21.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oye Como Va!: Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music by Deborah Pacini Hernandez Synopsis Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed “Oye Como Va!” in the 1960s, his popular song was called “Latin” even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos... (read more) Your price: $71.50 New - Hardcover
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Oye Como Va!: Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music by Pacini Hernandez Deborah, Publisher Comments Listen Up! When the New York born Tito Puento composed "Oye Como Va!"in the 1960s, his popular song was called "Latin" even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos Santana, a Mexican immigrant... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $23.08 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro by Patrick Neate and Damian Platt Publisher Comments An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with music At a time when interest in Brazilian culture has reached an all-time high, and the stories of one person's ability to improve the lives of others has captured so many hearts... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Amplified Youth by Angelo Sindaco Publisher Comments ##Amplified Youth is a book about being young and crazy for rock'n'roll and the ritual of a concert, capturing the spirit of the celebration of sound, sweat and raw energy through a collection of rigorous black and white photographs. #Angelo Sindaco, a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaeton, and Revolution in Havana (Refiguring American Music) by Geoffrey Baker Publisher Comments In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Trade Paper
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Celia: My Life by Celia Cruz Publisher Comments For the first time in her own words comes the personal story of a life filled with heartbreaking setback and triumph, from one of the most celebrated talents the world has ever known. After Celia Cruz passed away on July 17, 2003, more than a half... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Book of Salsa (08 Edition) by Rondon Publisher Comments Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music—and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Tangled Web: The Best Music Tour You Never Heard of by Derek Beres Synopsis Photojournalist Derek Beres spent one month traveling across America with what appeared to be the most ambitious Latin music tour ever assembled in this country. Featuring Yerba Buena, Voltio, Akwid and Radio Mundial, what was to help forge a new... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper
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Oye Como Va! (09 Edition) by Deborah Pacini Hernandez Review "Oye Como Va! brings Pacini Hernandez's unsurpassed expertise in Latino/a and Latin American popular music into a groundbreaking study of how issues of cultural nationalism, immigration, and transnationalism have affected its identification... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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