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El Ritmo Y La Palabra O Para Una Poética De La Salsa Y La Presalsa, Witton Becerra
El Ritmo Y La Palabra O Para Una Poética De La Salsa Y La Presalsa, Witton Becerra
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Salsa has been widely developed as a musical style, as well as part of Spanish American culture, specifically from the Spanish Caribbean. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the poetics of salsa music produced in New York City, and “presalsa” in particular, which is the name coined to the Cuban and Puerto Rican rhythms preceding and establishing the musical and poetic patterns of salsa music.
The main issue elucidated here is how salsa and presalsa music take their poetic forms from the “décima espinela”, a 17th century Spanish poetic style, coupled with sounds from Bantu languages called …