Cuban article on salsa music

Interesting. I didn't realise how much the Cubans rallied against the word/term/movement that was salsa. I also didn't know that mambo originally came from Cuba...
 
Good article. If you like the content, you might want to check out Leonardo Padura Fuentes' book, Faces of Salsa: A Spoken History of the Music. It's a book of interviews with the many of the founding fathers of salsa listed in the article. It also talks about balancing conscience and commercialization in salsa, the debate about the term "salsa", etc. Definitely worth reading.

While on the subject of articles and books on salsa, has anyone read Rondon's El libro de la Salsa in either Spanish or English?
 
Joy in Motion said:
While on the subject of articles and books on salsa, has anyone read Rondon's El libro de la Salsa in either Spanish or English?
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Aye. I read 3/4 of it last month.
It was a strange book as I was super-keen to lap it all up but found it unbearably turgid at times, hence me giving up after 180 pages.

'There was this bloke, he had lots of sabor and then there was another bloke with bags of sabor and a third one - also full of sabor. Then, a year later, this band emerged: soo much sabor.' and so on and so forth.

Nevertheless it was a worthwhile read and I think I will buy it at some point
as it's great reference material.
 
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