Article: From the editor.(popularity, evolution of salsa music)(Editorial)

At a time when the entire music industry is confronting some of its lowest sales and profits in its history, in the Latin music market it is salsa music that is suffering the most, abandoned almost completely by the majors unless your name is Marc Anthony or Gilberto Santa Rosa. Contrary to negative press from journalists throughout the nation and abroad who have already written off salsa, however, it is not dead. Ever since tropical dance music was coined under the umbrella term of "salsa" in the early 1970s in New York City, it has gone through its peaks and valleys. In the late 1970s it was the disco explosion that first threatened the purity of salsa. The late 1980s ...

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