Centro Journal 16, no. 1 (Spring 2004)

IN THIS ISSUE

Special Issue: Puerto Rican Music and Dance: RicanStructing Roots/Routes, Part I
Juan Flores and Wilson A. Valentín-Escobar

Preface
Juan Flores and Wilson A. Valentín-Escobar

The Year 1898 in the Music of the Caribbean: Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Machinations of the U.S. Music Industry
Leonardo Acosta

When Bomba Becomes the National Music of the Puerto Rican Nation…
Juan Cartagena

Plena and the Negotiation of “National” Identity in Puerto Rico
Marilyn Miller

La negra de Ponce: una entrevista con Ruth Fernández (el alma de Puerto Rico hecha canción)
Marvette Pérez

A Challenge for Puerto Rican Music: How to Build A Soberao for Bomba
Halbert Barton

El ser jíbaro en Piquito
Grego Marcano

Somos un solo pueblo y la construcción de la migración en el Banco Popular
Maribel Ortiz Márquez

Tremendo rumbón: una entrevista con Genaro “Heny” Álvarez
Juan Flores and Jorge Matos Valldejuli

Si de cantar se trata
Lourdes Vázquez

Five Decades of the Puerto Rican Music Scene in Chicago: A Personal Recollection
Carlos Flores

Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodríguez, Authenticity, and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s
David F. García

A South Bronx Music Tale
Roberta L. Singer and Elena Martínez