Faces of Salsa: A Spoken History of the Music

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On this choice of masterfully crafted interviews with one of the crucial 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 its artistic legacy. Filled with personal revelations by the musicians, historical detail about their lives and times, and colorful anecdotes about their identities, friendships, and working relationships, the book is a tribute to the artistry and social commitment of one of the crucial most inventive artists of our time.

In his brilliant introduction concerning the idols of Latin music for the reason that 1920s, and all the way through the book, Padura takes up the old dispute concerning the relationship of salsa to the Cuban music referred to as son, but the book isn’t a seek for origins. Quite, through his conversations with a group of extraordinarily articulate musicians, he reveals how the aesthetics of salsa filled a cultural void, transforming popular Latin and Caribbean dance music and creating a new generation of musicians who would establish a new model: the salsero, an artist who had embarked upon something his forbearers never did—a conscious project.

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