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Baila!
A Bibliographic Guide to Afro-Latin Dance Musics, from Mambo to Salsa

By John Gray

Price: $124.95
Binding: Cloth
ISBN: 978-0-9844134-3-0
678 pages
African Diaspora Press
Pub. Date: March 2013

SUBJECTS
Music -- Ethnomusicology
Music -- Popular
Performing Arts
Area Studies -- Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Ethnic Studies -- Latino/Hispanic Studies

SERIES TITLE: Black Music Reference Series
SERIES NUMBER: 4

REVIEWS AND AWARDS
Winner of the 2015 Vincent H. Duckles Award for ‘best book-length bibliography or other research tool’ from the Music Library Association.

"Best Reference of 2013." -- Library Journal

" ... a landmark work that belongs in all music libraries and Latin American and Caribbean collections."
-- Dominique-Rene de Lerma, Choice

"A critical compendium for Afro-Latin dance researchers and enthusiasts."
-- Judy Quinn, Library Journal

DESCRIPTION
This groundbreaking work, a companion to the author's recent ADP title, Afro-Cuban-Music, picks up where that volume leaves off, focusing on the influence of Cuban popular music outside of the island as well as a host of new hybrid and local styles from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Latin New York. The fruit of almost two decades of research it offers the most comprehensive survey to-date of the literature on commercial Latin dance musics and the dances associated with them.

A treasure trove of information, its 5300 entries document the history and evolution of numerous lesser-known regional styles such as Colombian champeta, Puerto Rican bomba y plena and Dominican bachata along with their better-known transnational counterparts, mambo, salsa and merengue. Of particular note is Baila!'s in-depth coverage of U.S.-based Latin music scenes in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as those based in Australia, Canada, France and Germany. Valuable information may also be found on the various types of instruments used in Latin music ensembles, along with the many instructional works available on their history and performance practice.

These historical materials are complemented by a major biographical section offering material on the lives and careers of more than 1100 individual artists, dancers and others whose work has helped shape the trajectory of the music from Cubop of the 1940s to mambo and cha-cha-cha of the 1950s, pachanga and boogaloo/Latin soul of the 1960s, salsa and charanga of the 1970s, and Latin jazz of the 1980s and beyond.

Citations range in date from 1930 to 2011 and encompass materials in all major European languages, with an emphasis on English, Spanish and French.

The work concludes with an extensive reference section offering lists of Sources Consulted, a guide to relevant Libraries and Archives, two appendices listing artists and individuals by idiom/occupation and country, and separate Author and Subject indexes.

Students, scholars and librarians will find Baila! to be an essential resource on Afro-Latin expressive culture -- its music and dance, language, literature, aesthetics, and more -- from North and South America to Europe, Africa and Japan.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I.    General Works
II.   Musical Instruments
III.  Genre Studies
         Bolero
         Boogaloo/Latin Soul
         Cha-cha-cha
         Charanga/Pachanga
         Cumbia
         Jazz/Latin Jazz
         Mambo
         Merengue
         Rhumba/Rumba
         Salsa
IV.  Regional Studies
         Argentina
         Australia
         Austria
         Belgium
         Brazil
         Canada
         Chile
         Colombia
             Genre Studies
                 Champeta
                 Cumbia
                 Salsa
                 Vallenato
         Costa Rica
         Cuba
         Curacao
         Democratic Republic of Congo
         Dominican Republic
             Merengue and Bachata
         Ecuador
         France
         Germany
         Great Britain
         Greece
         Haiti
         Italy
         Japan
         Mexico
         Netherlands, The
         Nigeria
         Northern Ireland
         Panama
         Peru
         Puerto Rico/New York
              Genre Studies
                  Bolero
                  Bomba y Plena
                  Danza
                  Salsa
         Senegal
         Slovenia
         Spain
         Switzerland
         United States
         Uruguay
         Venezuela
             Salsa
V. Biographical and Critical Studies
Sources Consulted
Libraries and Archives
Appendix I:  List of Individuals and Ensembles by Idiom/Occupation
Appendix II:  List of Individuals and Ensembles by Country
Author Index
Subject Index 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOHN GRAY is director of the Black Arts Research Center.His previous publications include Afro-Cuban Music; Jamaican Popular Music, from Mento to Dancehall Reggae; From Vodou to Zouk; African Music; Fire Music; Blacks in Classical Music; Blacks in Film and Television; Black Theatre and Performance; and, Ashe, Traditional Religion and Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora.


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