Salsa music
Salsa is a dance music style rooted in Caribbean and Latin traditions.
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Salsa is a style of dance music that blends Caribbean traditions from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic with European and African influences.[1]
Making and release
Johnny Pacheco popularized a New York version of Cuban dance music by founding Fania Records and the Fania All Stars in the 1960s.[2] Pacheco and his business partner selected the word “salsa” as the genre's convenient, memorable, marketable identifier in the late 1960s.[2] By the middle of the 1970s, Fania was producing nearly 80% of the salsa records for sale in the United States.[2] La Sonora Habanera put out an album in 1957 whose cover bore the word "Salsa" for the first time.[3]
Roger Dawson launched "Sunday Salsa Show" on WRVR FM in 1975; according to Arbitron Radio Ratings, it attracted over a quarter of a million listeners each Sunday, making it one of the highest-rated programs in the New York radio market.[4]
What the cited sources add
Izzy Sanabria, a Puerto Rican music promoter, stated that he first applied the word salsa to a music genre in 1973 when he hosted the television program "Salsa".[5] Sanabria admitted that musicians did not originate the term salsa, saying "Musicians were busy creating the music but played no role in promoting the name salsa."[6] Johnny Pacheco, co-founder of Fania Records, repeatedly defined the term “Salsa” in interviews as “La salsa es, y siempre ha sido, la musica cubana.”.[7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Salsa music" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rondón, "The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City", Univ of North Carolina Press, 2008; Largey, "Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae", Temple University Press, 2012, 2012; "Salsa is a Latin dance associated with the music genre of the same name which originated in the 1960s in New York City. Salsa is an amalgamation of Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban dances."; Bisno, "Inventing Salsa - United States patent and trademark office.", United States patent and trademark office., 1960 en.wikipedia.org
- Bisno, "Inventing Salsa - United States patent and trademark office.", United States patent and trademark office., 1960. facts only, no text reused. uspto.gov
- Wikipedia, "Salsa music" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Salsa y sabor de Cheo Marquetti y Su Conjunto los Salseros, 33 1/3 RPM con cdandlp" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Salsa music" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Manuel 1990, p. 48 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Salsa music" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Boggs 1992, p. 190 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Salsa music" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Boggs 1992, p. 192. Izzy Sanabria: "In Santo Domingo ... they told me that they don't recognize a Dominican artist as having made it in New York City unless a p; Izzy Sanabria 2005 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Salsa music" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Boggs 1992, p. 189; Boggs 1992, p. 189; "Johnny Pacheco, el ingrediente esencial de la salsa • Semanario Universidad", 23 February 2022; "El Maestro Johnny Pacheco : 'Yo soy la Salsa'", 24 February 2021; "Johnny Pacheco Define la Palabra Salsa" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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Sources
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- Wikipedia: Salsa music (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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