THE CITY OF MUSICAL MEMORY

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THE CITY OF MUSICAL MEMORY
Title:                                          THE CITY OF MUSICAL MEMORY
                                                  Salsa, Record Grooves, and Popular Culture in Cali,Colombia
Label:                                         Wesleyan ISBN 0-8195-6442-7

The following text was written by:
                                                  Lise A. Waxer

A SOCIAL HISTORY OF SALSA IN COLOMBIA

Salsa is a popular dance musicdeveloped by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms.By 1980s, the Colombian metropolis of Cali emerged on the global stage as an important center for salsa consumption and performance. Despite their geographic distance from the Caribbean and from Hispanic Caribbean migrants in New York City, Caleños(People from Cali) claim unity with Cubans, Puerto Ricans and New York Latinos by virtue of their having adopted salsa as their own. The City of Musical Memory explores this local adoption of salsa and its Afro-Caribbean antecedents in relation to national and regional musical styles, shedding light on salsa's spread to other Latin American cities. Cali's case disputes the prevalent academic notion that live music is more "real" or "authentic" thanits about the place of technology in music culture and the complex negotiations of local and transnational cultural identities.


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