El libro de la salsa

Salsa, that music from the Latino neighborhoods of New York, was born in the 1950s in the places where Cubans, Puerto Ricans or Venezuelans who emigrated to the United States met. And it was always the voice of the neighborhood, of conflicting loves, of precarious life, of the "thugs" and the uprooted, a way of bringing the Caribbean to the stage of the big city. "The street is very hard," Joe Cuba sang, and with that phrase he condensed the spirit of salsa. A are to dance, to escape, to join the compatriots far from the homeland. And here is his story, that of true popular music that is not folklore, but the sound of the street and the people, with the vigor and strength of artists such as Rubén Blades, Celia Cruz, the Stars of Fania, Willie Colón , La Lupe and dozens of other great characters that are analyzed and celebrated in this book.