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Record grooves and salsa dance moves

The viejoteca phenomenon in Cali, Colombia

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ID4304290
AuthorsLise Waxer (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume20
Issue1
Pages61-81
Publication date2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopular Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143001001313
OpenAlexW2154838489
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

Disfrutar recordando tiempos de ayer al compás de música aprendida a fuerza de bailarla. Revivir la emoción de aquellos Momentos involvidables y sentir que somos los mismos . . .To enjoy while remembering moments of yesteryear to the rhythm of music learned by force of dancing to it. To live again the emotion of those unforgettable moments and feel that we are the same . . .Slogan on a poster for Changó Viejoteca, 1995In the southwest Colombian metropolis of Cali, recorded music has come to exert an unusually strong force on local popular culture in this century. Not only did recordings play a key role in establishing Cuban music, and later, salsa, as the principal musical style of the city, they also became the basis for the record-centred dance scene that predominated in Cali during the 1940s through to the 1970s, and continued to be important as the live scene flourished during the 1980s and 1990s. The centrality of recorded music for Caleños (the inhabitants of Cali) challenges the privileging, in most scholarly work, of live performance as more 'real' or 'authentic' than its mediated versions. Indeed, for many decades, 'playing music' in Cali literally meant putting on a record, as a source of music for other social and expressive activities. The term disco (literally, record disc) still exists as a local synonym for 'song', even when it is a live rendition of a song, e.g. 'vamos a tocar ese disco' (let's perform that song

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dance · Electronic dance music · Musical · Performance art · Popular music · Slogan · Style (visual arts · Visual arts · Afro-Latin American Studies · History · Youth Culture and Social Dynamics

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Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,07
Citation span2011 - 2011 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1

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