Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music (Perspectives in Globalpop)

She has conducted extensive ethnographic and historical research on salsa music and its Cuban roots and also performs Latin jazz and salsa on the piano. She received her PhD. Lise Waxer is Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. . in Ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. She is in the process of completing her first book, The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves,

. About the AuthorLise Waxer is Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. She received her PhD. She is in the process of completing her first book, The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves,and Local Popular Culture in Columbia. She has conducted extensive ethnographic and historical research on salsa music and its Cuban roots and also performs Latin jazz and salsa on the piano

"Great book BUT" according to bODYbOD. A really well done book. Only slight criticism is that I feel the author in relating the ROOTS/EVOLUTION of Salsa seems to have interviewed people who weren't actually involved in the NY TRIBORO / Puert Rican / Cuban Salsa creative process. Instead Ms Waxer mostly quotes them. The questions that she asks Colombian and Venezuelan musicians about Clave , Salsa variations, etc should have been referred to the creators / progenitors of Salsa from

Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts.