Research Guides: Spring 2022 BCC Puerto Rico Research Tour: Music &amp; Dance

Bomba is an Essential Expression of Puerto Rican Culture

Bomba is an Essential Expression of Puerto Rican Culture
"Before there were styles like salsa and reggaetón, there was bomba. The name does not only refer to the ancient music genre, but it is also the name of the instruments and the dance that accompanies the music. Bomba is everything. "

Puerto Rican music in Hawai'i: Kachi-kachi
From Alexander Street Press and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
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Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways; Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by Rounder Records

Boricuas In The House: New Music From Puerto Rico
From NPR's alt.Latino / 53 minute listen
LATINX ARTS AND CULTURE
2013
Salsa Radio Stations
Listen to Salsa radio stations from Puerto Rico

Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk by Susanna Sloat (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2005
An unprecedented overview of the dances from each of this region's major islands and the complex, fused, and layered cultures that gave birth to them. The authors in this collection, from distinguished cultural leaders to highly innovative choreographers, reveal how dance shapes personal, communal, and national identity. Entries on Puerto Rico and on the African Background of Caribbean dance.
The City of Musical Memory: salsa, record grooves, and popular culture in Cali, Colombia by Lise A. Waxer; Lise Waxer
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2002
Salsa is a popular dance music developed by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms. By the 1980s, the Colombian metropolis of Cali emerged on the global stage as an important center for salsa consumption and performance. Despite their geographic distance from the Caribbean and from Hispanic Caribbean migrants in New York City, Caleños (people from Cali) claim unity with Cubans, Puerto Ricans and New York Latinos by virtue of their having adopted salsa as their own. The City of Musical Memory explores this local adoption of salsa and its Afro-Caribbean antecedents in relation to national and regional musical styles, shedding light on salsa's spread to other Latin American cities.