Sasa Music

Most events within the Congress are related to watching groups of salsa dancers, salsa singers and spaces so the spectator dances salsa until early in the morning. Salsa music is to high importance of historical culture of USA because it grew in the neighborhood, not only understood as a geographical sphere but as a space of resistance which helped to construct today Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Latinamerican populated neighborhoods. It was an expression that tried to set bridges between ancestral music like Afro-cuban Rumba and Guaguanco, with the new rhythms that were appearing in the late 1970s. But there was not only an element of musical shape but also of content. Salsa was a expression of the discontent and the aspirations Latinoamericans
The relationship musician had with their own instrument started from the point they hunted the animals which made the basic elements of the instrument. There was an oral way of transmission about how the instrument should be made to sound as it should be, there were prolific musicians who taught the music without economic interest but as a communitarian carreer choice. The point was to advance and maintain the ancient elements of culture.
This is one of the elements why I find interesting the event of salsa, but I acknowledge the fact that most of the resistance culture within salsa went away. The reason has to be with how the music corporations like Fania took over salsa music, not only to bring it out of the neighborhoods but to the commercial sphere. There was a folklorization and recuperation of the music, the political elements ever present in the first songs and groups. The reason has to be with the contradictory relationship between salsa as a way to express individual or collective identity and the commoditization of salsa as only