Lyrics and rhythm: a study of salsa music poetics
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 book is to investigate the poetics of salsa music produced in New York City, and “presalsa” in particular, which is the name coined to the Cub...
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| author | Becerra Mayorga, Witton; Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia |
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| description | 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 book 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 “jitanjáforas”. Also, the purpose of this book is to study salsa and presalsa lyrics within the categories of “canción salsa relato”, “canción salsa poema”, and “canción salsa jitanjáfora”.
The case study method is applied in this research to analyze the lyrics of salsa and presalsa music at three different levels – observation, interpretation and assertions. This methodology is a relevant aspect of the research in order to report specific lyrics which represent poetic patterns in these music styles. Complemented by cultural theory, each case study is described in depth with concepts that explain the development of this type of music in popular culture.
In the first part, the approach to culture, popular culture, and popular music are fundamental, as they are the theoretical concepts that form the basis of this research. This contributes to the study of how the use of the “décima” originated from popular culture and reaches Puerto Rican and Cuban music and from there passes on to New York City. Popular culture and popular music also generate an approach to the use of “jitanjáforas” in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén and Luis Palés Matos and leads to the explanation of how it is manifested in salsa and in presalsa music as well.
In addition to how the poetics of salsa and presalsa emerge, the case studies are used to understand the poetic configuration of salsa in the songs seen from the perspective of story, poem and jitanjáforas.
The main outcome achieved in this dissertation is the complementary approach to salsa music by means of poetics. According to the literature review presented in this research, the most important studies in the area of popular music and salsa are related to ethnomusicology. Consequently, this book goes beyond this and proposes salsa and presalsa lyrics as a literary style. |
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| spelling | oai:oai.librosaccesoabierto.uptc.edu.co:publicationFormat-2322022-08-11T22:15:39Z Lyrics and rhythm: a study of salsa music poetics El ritmo y la palabra o para una poética de la música salsa Becerra Mayorga, Witton; Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia Música salsa Música presalsa Poética Literatura Caribe hispánico Décima Jitanjáforas Cuba Puerto Rico Salsa music presalsa music poetics literature Spanish Caribbean décima jitanjáforas poem story Cuba Puerto Rico 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 book 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 “jitanjáforas”. Also, the purpose of this book is to study salsa and presalsa lyrics within the categories of “canción salsa relato”, “canción salsa poema”, and “canción salsa jitanjáfora”. The case study method is applied in this research to analyze the lyrics of salsa and presalsa music at three different levels – observation, interpretation and assertions. This methodology is a relevant aspect of the research in order to report specific lyrics which represent poetic patterns in these music styles. Complemented by cultural theory, each case study is described in depth with concepts that explain the development of this type of music in popular culture. In the first part, the approach to culture, popular culture, and popular music are fundamental, as they are the theoretical concepts that form the basis of this research. This contributes to the study of how the use of the “décima” originated from popular culture and reaches Puerto Rican and Cuban music and from there passes on to New York City. Popular culture and popular music also generate an approach to the use of “jitanjáforas” in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén and Luis Palés Matos and leads to the explanation of how it is manifested in salsa and in presalsa music as well. In addition to how the poetics of salsa and presalsa emerge, the case studies are used to understand the poetic configuration of salsa in the songs seen from the perspective of story, poem and jitanjáforas. The main outcome achieved in this dissertation is the complementary approach to salsa music by means of poetics. According to the literature review presented in this research, the most important studies in the area of popular music and salsa are related to ethnomusicology. Consequently, this book goes beyond this and proposes salsa and presalsa lyrics as a literary style. La salsa se ha desarrollado ampliamente como estilo musical del Caribe hispánico. El propósito principal de este libro consiste en indagar la poética de las canciones de salsa y presalsa. Este término alude a la música de Cuba y Puerto Rico que precede y afecta el paradigma musical y literario de la salsa que se creó en Nueva York. El principal problema que se resuelve acá es cómo la salsa y la presalsa toman sus formas poéticas de la literatura española del siglo XVII y de los sonidos residuales de las lenguas bantú que quedaron en los afrodescendientes del Caribe llamados jitanjáforas. Otro aporte que hace este trabajo, al estudio de estas músicas, es la categorización de las canciones como “canción salsa relato”, “canción salsa poema”, y “canción salsa jitanjáfora”. La metodología empleada en esta investigación se basa en los estudios de canciones. Esta metodología es importante para el desarrollo de este trabajo ya que ayuda a estudiar la poética de la salsa y la presalsa en casos específicos. La investigación se completa con la teoría cultural para entender la salsa y la presalsa como productos de la cultura popular. El estudio del concepto de cultura, cultura popular y música popular son fundamentales en la primera parte de este trabajo ya que son las bases teóricas que configuran la investigación. Esto contribuye al estudio de cómo el uso de la décima nace de la cultura popular y llega a la música puertorriqueña y cubana y de allí pasa a la ciudad de Nueva York. La revisión sobre la cultura popular y la música popular genera una aproximación al uso de las jitanjáforas en la poesía de Nicolás Guillén y Luis Palés Matos y permite la explicación de cómo se manifiesta también en la salsa y la presalsa. Complementario a cómo surge la poética de la salsa y la presalsa, los estudios particulares de las canciones sirven para comprender la configuración poética de la salsa desde las canciones vistas desde el relato, el poema y las jitanjáforas.El principal logro de este libro consiste en completar lo que se ha hecho sobre la música salsa que no ha tocado la parte literaria, algo que se había hecho parcialmente en algunos trabajos que estudian esta música y que, por tanto, es la principal contribución de este trabajo. Desde el estado de la cuestión se observa que lo que más se ha hecho, respecto al estudio de la salsa, está desde lo etnomusicológico, por eso este libro va más allá a través del estudio de las canciones como un estilo literario. 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