Centro Journal
Volume 16, no. 1 2004 spring
Special Issue: Puerto Rican Music and Dance: RicanStructing Roots/Routes, Part I
Juan Flores and Wilson A. Valentín-Escobar
Preface
Juan Flores and Wilson A. Valentín-Escobar
The Year 1898 in the Music of the Caribbean: Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Machinations of the U.S. Music Industry
Leonardo Acosta
When Bomba Becomes the National Music of the Puerto Rican Nation…
Juan Cartagena
Plena and the Negotiation of “National” Identity in Puerto Rico
Marilyn Miller
La negra de Ponce: una entrevista con Ruth Fernández (el alma de Puerto Rico hecha canción)
Marvette Pérez
A Challenge for Puerto Rican Music: How to Build A Soberao for Bomba
Halbert Barton
El ser jíbaro en Piquito
Grego Marcano
Somos un solo pueblo y la construcción de la migración en el Banco Popular
Maribel Ortiz Márquez
Tremendo rumbón: una entrevista con Genaro “Heny” Álvarez
Juan Flores and Jorge Matos Valldejuli
Si de cantar se trata
Lourdes Vázquez
Five Decades of the Puerto Rican Music Scene in Chicago: A Personal Recollection
Carlos Flores
Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodríguez, Authenticity, and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s
David F. García
A South Bronx Music Tale
Roberta L. Singer and Elena Martínez
Volume XVI - Number 2 (Fall 2004)
Puerto Rican Music and Dance: Rican Structing Roots/Routes, Part II
Fall 2004
Vol.XVI, No.2, 300 pages
Guest Editors Juan Flores and Wilson A. Valentín-Escobar
Preface
Juan Flores and Wilson Valentín-Escobar
strong>Perspectives on “Salsa”
Leonardo Acosta
Entre la poesía y la música: Victor Hernández Cruz y el mapa musical nuyorican
Francisco Cabanillas
The Musical Poet, A Session with Victor Hernández Cruz
Francisco Cabanillas
Salsa Symbiosis: Barry Rogers, Eddie Palmieri’s Chief Collaborator in the Making of La Perfecta
David Carp
¡Ecua Jei! Ismael Rivera, El Sonero Mayor (A Personal Recollection)
Aurora Flores
Memorializing La Lupe and Lavoe: Singing Vulgarity, Transnationalism and Gender
Frances Aparicio and Wilson A. Valentín-Escobar
# Poems: “Ode to Celia,” “Puerto Rican Discovery #11 Samba Rumba Cha-Cha Be-Bop Hip Hop,” “Dance with Me”
Sandra María Esteves
Mambo on 2: The Birth of a New Form of Dance in New York City
Sydney Hutchinson
Salsa Dance: Latino/a history in motion
Priscilla Renta
Salsa music as expressive liberation
Marisol Berríos-Miranda
"Yo tengo sentido, tengo rima”: Cano Estremera and the Art of Soneo
Benjamin Lapidus
Rejecting the Shadow: Steve Berrios, An Apache of the skins, discusses his musical Influences, Latin Jazz music, and the significance of the Fort Apache Band
Wilson A. Valentín-Escobar
Go and Make Disciples: An Analysis of the Salsa Evangélica Movement in Puerto Rico
Luis Vazquez
Profetas de la cultura: Notes on the Puerto Rican Reggae of Cultura Profética
Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández
Everything you’ve ever heard, and nothing you’ve ever heard: Ricanstruction, New-Nuyorican punk activists
Jorge Arévalo Mateus
Entrevista a Tego Calderón
Raquel Z. Rivera
Creolité in the ‘Hood: Diaspora as source and challenge
Juan Flores
