10.21.2010 Annotated Bibliography

Campbell, Patricia Shehan. Teaching Music Globally Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. New York. Oxford University Press Inc. 2004.

 

• From this textbook, I was able to find the rhythmic patterns of claves and the other instruments that fit with the claves during a piece. This book did not talk a lot about the salsa history, rather, this book explained a salsa piece, “Mi Bajo Y Yo” which I will be using as a homework example for WMS students to do. This piece sounds like the original salsa music.

 

 

D’Leon, Oscar. “Mulata Coqueta.” The Rough Guide Salsa. World Music Network. 1992.

 

• I am going to use this piece as an example that I will play for the WMS class students. This whole CD provides 14 tracks that are all different from one another. This CD gives the different musical examples that I can use for my lessons. This CD has a lot of different musicians who had different backgrounds and influences in their music.

 

Falcon, Rafael. Salsa A Taste of Hispanic Culture. Connecticut. Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. 1998.

 

• This book rather talks and focuses a lot more in the people and the cultures of Hispanic people. This book talks about the meaning and how the salsa has created, but not so much in detail. This book actually gave the most of amount of Social Organization components of musical culture. This book looked at people’s lives and how they are related to the creation of salsa music.

 

Moore, Robin. Music In The Hispanic Caribbean Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. New York. Oxford University Press. 2010.

 

• This book is a textbook that is used for World Music class that is taught by Dr. Armstrong. From this resource, I was able to find the activities components of musical culture and the ideas of components of musical culture. This book talks about how the Salsa’s sound elements changed because of the context of one piece. Also, this book talks about the dances that are rooted to the sound of New York Salsa.

 

Muleon, Rebeca. Salsa Guidebook for Piano & Ensemble. Sher Music Co. California. 1993.

 

• I found this book the most helpful out of all the resources. This book not only talk about the importance of claves in a depth, but also talk about the history of salsa music. This book gives a lot of material culture related to the common salsa style music. This book also gives a lot of activities that are connected to the salsa music. This book gave me the clear understanding the foundation of salsa music, Claves.

 

Quintero-Rivera, Angle G. “Migration and World View In Salsa Music.” Latin American Music Review 24.2 (2003): 210-32. JSTOR. Web. 2 Oct. 2010. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598739&gt;.

 

• This article gave the background of the great migration which that took place in the beginning of 1910 through 1940. This article gave me the background of people which are related to the social organization of salsa musical culture components. This article shows how the growth rate of the salsa music was impacted by the number of Afro-Latin American moving from Latin countries and South to New York and North part of the United States.

 

Rondon, Cesar Miguel. The Book of Salsa A Chronicle of Urban Music From The Caribbean To New York City. Caracas, Venezuela. The University of North Carolina Press. 2008. Translated by Aparicio, Frances and White, Jackie.

 

• This book was written by a Venezuelan author and was translated for the English readers. This book talks about the growth of Salsa in New York City. This book starts the book from 1949 when the salsa started to develop in New York City. This book talks about how Afro-Latin Americans have brought the musical culture of Latin African music to New York and mixed up with Jazz music to create a new genre which ultimately becomes Salsa. This book helped me to understand the Idea components of musical culture and some of the information about Social organization.

 

Wade, Bonnie C. Thinking Musically Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. New York. Oxford University Press Inc. 2004.

 

• From this textbook, I found out the basic meaning of salsa. This book also talks about surface level of what Claves mean when students are learning about Salsa music. This book was the way to give little information about salsa which helped me to what to look at or study.

 

Waxer, Lise. Situating Salsa Global Markets and Local Meaning in Latin Popular Music. New York. Routledge. 2002.

 

• From this source, I found more information about social organization related to New York Salsa. This book gave me the information related to Cuba’s dance music and how it is used to bring people together. This book focused on different time frames on salsa. The chapter about the socialism and Salsa music talked about 1959 throught 1999.