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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Arsenio Rodriguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music (Studies In Latin America & Car)by: David F. Garcia  List Price: $25.95 Amazon.com's Price: $23.35 You Save: $2.60 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 781.64092 EAN: 9781592133864 ISBN: 159213386X Label: Temple University Press Manufacturer: Temple University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: June 28, 2006 Publisher: Temple University Press Studio: Temple University Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Arsenio Rodriguez, composer and musical innovator, made an indelible impact on a broad range of musical styles from the Caribbean and Latin America to West and Central Africa. The son montuno style that he created and his innovative conjunto ensemble inspired other Cuban musicians and played a key role in the development of salsa, yet Arsenio achieved only intermittent commercial success. Drawing on the testimony of family, musicians, dancers, and other contemporaries, David Garcia traces Arsenio's early career in Cuba, his influence on Cuban and Latin popular music in the 1940s, his struggle for recognition at the height of mambo-mania in the 1950s, and his importance to Puerto Rican and Cuban communities in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Garcia shows how matters of race, class, and identity as well as the transnational Latin music industry shaped Arsenio's music and career. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Arsenio RodrÃguez bioThe book all of us Arsenio-ologists have been waiting for, the discography and sidemen info are worth the double its sale price alone.... Rating:  - Great Resource and Interesting ReadWhat a treasure to have an English-language resource that shines light on this important figure, a man who was, and is, simultaneously revered and neglected. The source of many of salsa's most enduring innovations, Arsenio Rodriguez' contributions spanned the mambo era and found resonance when this music re-emerged later as "salsa." Garcia does a fine job of illuminating this for the reader. It should not surprise Americans, as Garcia points out, that these innovations were inspired by Arsenio's ... Read More 
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