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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, and production--was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy César Miguel Rondón's celebrated El libro de la salsa . For this first English-language edition, Rondón has added a new chapter to bring the story of salsa up to the present.

Salsa (Music) --- Salsa musicians --- Musicians --- History and criticism.

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Timba (Music) --- Dance music --- Dance --- Blacks --- Salsa (Music) --- Instrumental music --- Music --- Dances --- Dancing --- Amusements --- Performing arts --- Balls (Parties) --- Eurythmics --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- History and criticism. --- Race identity --- Social life and customs. --- Cuba --- Black persons --- Black people

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What happens in globalised social contexts if people identify with a language that is not traditionally considered to be ‘their’ language? This unique contribution to the field of sociolinguistics scrutinises language ideologies of German and Australian Communities of Practice constituted by Salsa dance and asks what languages symbolise in transnational, non-ethnic cultures. Using ethnographic methodology and a deconstructive approach to language it examines these different Salsa communities and gives insight into the interaction of social discourses from local, national and transnational realms, examining differences, similarities and a simultaneous multiplicity of languages’ symbolic functions. This book will be welcomed by postgraduates, professional sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists as well as scholars of cultural anthropology, sociology and cultural studies who are interested in the development of modernist categories in transnational culture.

Linguistic minorities. --- Languages in contact. --- Multiculturalism --- Salsa (Music) --- Sociolinguistics. --- Linguistic demography. --- Demography --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Salsa --- Popular music --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Areal linguistics --- Minority languages --- Minorities --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Government policy --- Political aspects --- Minoritized languages --- Dance. --- Social discourses. --- Transnational cultures.