Over the years, Southwest Humanities has been fortunate to compile the indexes for a number of works that investigate various forms of music, and the latest is Marisol Negrón’s Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings (Duke University Press, 2024). Providing an in-depth examination of the foundational period of salsa in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s, Negrón’s book “tells the cultural history of salsa, tracing the music’s Nuyorican meanings over a fifty-year period that begins with the establishment of Fania Records in 1964 and how it capitalized on salsa’s Nuyorican imaginary to cultivate a global audience.” Based in part on interviews with record label owners, musicians, and fans, and analyzing songs, albums, cover art, and careers, “Negrón shows how Nuyorican cultural and social histories became embedded in and impacted salsa music’s flows.” Made in NuYoRico will be published on October 31, 2024. Please visit the publisher’s website here for more information, as well as to read the book’s introduction.
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