Check out the photo and feature on professor Christopher Washburne in the NY Times:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/showcase-159/?scp=1&sq=washburne&st=cse
Congratulations to Faculty -
Prof. Ellen Gray, who has accepted a one-year fellowship for 2009-10 at the Rutgers' Center for Historical Analysis and to
Prof. Christopher Washburne, who has been promoted to tenured Associate Professor of Music!
This ethnographic journey into the New York Salsa scene of the 1990s is the first of its kind. Written by a musical insider, and from the perspective of salsa musicians, Sounding Salsa is a pioneering study that offers detailed accounts of these musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commericial pressures. Christopher Washburne, himself an accomplished salsa musician, examines the organizational structures, recording processes, rehearsing, and gigging of salsa bands, paying particular attention to how they created a sense of community, privileged "the people" over artistic and commercial concerns, and incited cultural pride during performances.
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