Here's a list of books that we recommend
to anyone interested in further exploring the roots of Latin
music. We would like thank Charity Dell for organizing
this list. NOTE: this list is in no particular order of importance.
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1. BACHATA: A Social History of Dominican
Popular
Music. Deborah Pacini Hernandez.
Temple University Press, 1995.
ISBN 1566393000
2. BOSSA NOVA: The Story of the Brazilian
Sound that
Seduced the World.
Ruy Castro. Chicago Review Press, 2003.
ISBN 1556524943
3. BRAZILIAN POPULAR MUSIC AND GLOBALIZATION
Charles Perrone. Routledge, 2002.
ISBN 0415936950
4. THE BRAZILIAN SOUND: Samba, Bossa
Nova and the
Popular Music of Brazil.
Chris McGowan; Ricardo Pessanha.
Temple University Press, 1998.
5. CARRIBEAN CURRENTS: Caribbean Music
from Rumba to
Reggae. Peter Manuel.
Temple University Press, 1995.
ISBN 1566393396
6. CUBAN FIRE: The Saga of Salsa and
Latin Jazz.
Isabelle Leymarie.
Continuum Publishing Group, 2002.
ISBN 0826455867
7. CUBAN MUSIC: From Son and Rhumba
to the Buena Vista
Social Club and Timba Cubana.
Maya Roy; Denise Asfar.
Markus Wiener Pub., 2002.
ISBN 1558762825
8. CUBANO BE, CUBANO BOP: One Hundred
Years of Jazz inCuba.
Lenardo Acosta.
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003.
ISBN 15834147X
9. DANCING WITH FIDEL.
Stephen Foehr.
Sanctuary Publishing, 2001.
ISBN 1860743463
10. FACES OF SALSA: A Spoken History
of the Music.
Leonardo Padura Fuentes.
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003.
ISBN 1588340805
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