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General Index  General Index / 283 Abreu, Toño, 148 Acosta, Leonardo, 34, 78, 114, 253n 7 Adorno, Theodor, 84, 90–91, 94, 103, 190, 196, 210, 261n 14 Afro-Puerto Rican music. See music Aguirre Jr., Adalberto, xiv AIDS: in salsa music, 88–89 Alejandro, Chico, 170 Alfonso X the Wise, 8 Almodóvar, Pedro, 181 Alonso, Manuel A., 9–10, 11, 17, 44, 45 Althusser, 111 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 270n 27 appropriation, by listeners, 219, 233; cross–cultural, xvii, 115; of plena, 33 Arnaz, Desi, 107, 172 Arteaga Rodríguez, José, 265n 10 articulation, 77, 241. See also appropriation, resemanticization Astol, Félix, 14 audience research, 185–238; need for, xviii–xix, 187–90, 243–45 authenticity, 68, 71, 93, 114, 200 bachata, xvii, 104, 148 bandolera, 161, 163–65, 193, 229, 235 Barbero, Jesús Martín, 244 Bakhtin, 86, 99, 101 ballad, romantic, 95 Barretto, Ray, 80, 82 Barrio Obrero, 37, 139 Barthes, Roland, 60 Bartky, Sandra Lee, 135, 151, 169 bastonero, 11 Bauzá, Mario, 79 Beach Boys, The, 70, 142–43 Beatles, The, 70, 115 Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo, 126 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 141 Bell, Monna, 133 Beltrán Ruiz, Pablo, 74 Benítez, Lucecita, 59, 60 Benítez Rojo, Antonio, xvi, 146 Billboard, 108 blacks: exclusion of, 9, 13–14, 28; in Puerto Rican literature, 56; on television, 35. See also music: Afro-Puerto Rican Blades, Rubén, 32, 65, 68, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 93, 165, 223; as crossover, 108–116; listeners ’ preferences to, 199–201; lyrics by, 86–88 Blanco, Andrés Eloy, 175 Blanco, José, 42 Blanco, Tomás, 4, 6, 27, 45, 47, 50, 53, 147; writings by, 38–44 blues, 115 Bobbitt, Lorena, 168 bolero, xvi, 74, 76, 162, 180, 213, 227, 240; gendering in the, 138–41; in Puerto Rican fiction, 193–95; male responses to, 136–38; origins of, 126; patriarchal discourse in, 128–30, 154; rancheros, 133; reception of, 125; rewritings of, xviii, 138–41; and social classes, 139; and salsa erótica, 136–37; and transnationalism, 127; versus guarachas, 101–102, 177; women composers of, 130–32, 133. See also Santos, Daniel bomba, 9, 27, 59, 81 bombardino, 13 Boone, Pat, 115 Boston Pops Orchestra, The, 242 Bourdieu, Pierre, 237 Brau, Salvador, 4, 23, 44, 45, 50; writings, 10–16 brujería, 51; in women-authored boleros, 132 Butler, Judith, 7 Byrne, David, 66, 115 Cabán Vale, Antonio. See Topo, El Cabrera Infante, Guillermo, 79, 81, 92 Cachán, Manuel, 112 Calderón, Vitín, 24, 25 Callejo, Fernando, 13 calypso, 28 Campos, René, 133, 135, 137 capitalism: in Puerto Rico, 5, 29, 33, 158 carpe diem, 132 Carpentier, Alejo, 80 Carreta, La, 129 Carter, Jimmy, 25 Castilla, Cuates, 152 Castillo, Debra, 51, 56 Castro, Fidel, 79, 240 catholicism, 38 Caughie, Pamela, 122 Certeau, Michel de, 37 Chacón, Iris, 59, 60 Chambers, Iaian, 95, 99 Chantelle, 123 Chicago (musical group), 71 Chicano movement, 176 Chicas del Can, Las, 99, 123, 150, 160, 173 Chuíto el de Bayamón, 130 cimarrones, 82, 84, 141, 242 Cixous, Hélène, 137, 206 Claridad, 72 Clark, John, 28 class: conflict in Puerto Rico, 54; and gender , 42–44; and musical preferences, 199, 204, 230, 236. See also salsa: and class clave, 89–90 Club Palladium, 79–80 Cocolía, 13, 258n 2 cocolo, 56, 85; versus rockero, 69–73 Colina, Lolita de la, 131 Colón, Willie, xviii, 65, 67, 68, 80, 82, 90, 94, 95, 99, 115, 116, 173, 193, 196, 200, 203, 204, 220; gender in, 205–209; listeners’ responses to, 210–18; repertoire of, 240–41; song by, 88–89 colonial alienation, 58 colonialism: in Puerto Rico, 5–6, 18–20, 176, 196 combo, the, 90 Concepción, César, 33 Conga, Pedro, 165 consent, 222, 223, 228, 276n 4 convivencia, 5, 6 Cordero, Federico A., 15 Cortez, Alberto, 132 Cortijo, Rafael, 34, 36, 60, 92, 108; in Puerto Rican literature, 34–37; y su Combo, 35–37, 59, 111, 175 corridos, Mexican, 29, 82 countervaluation, 219, 233, 276n 2 country-dance, European, 11 courtly love, 130 creole: music, xvi; woman, 10 Crossover Dreams, 109 crossover music, xvii, 108–117; redefining, 116 Cruz, Celia, xii, 82, 95, 123, 142, 167, 175, 179, 242; feminism in, 173–74; repertoire of, 240–41 “Cuatro selecciones por una peseta,” 188, 193–96 Cuba, 79–81, 105–108 Cubop, 79 cultural difference, 68, 76, 105–108 cultural hybridity, 68 cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico, 4 cultural...

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