Article: Salsiology: Afro-Cuban Music and the Evolution of Salsa in New York City.

Salsiology includes essays by diverse authors on a variety of subjects, and its methodologies, sources, and styles range from the rigorously scholarly to the anecdotal and journalistic. Vernon Boggs states in his preface that the book "is geared towards a general readership that has little or no formal training in music" (p. xiii). I believe, however, that some prior knowledge of Latin music and its scholarly literature would help readers wade through the mass of undigested and erratically presented data. Salsiology contains much useful and interesting material, but lacks rigorous and consistent editing of format, style, and--most important--content.

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