American Sabor highlights the powerful presence of Latino/as in US popular music in imaginative and innovative ways and provides a model cultural studies approach to popular music, exploring the links between cultural texts and their social and historical contexts. -- George Lipsitz, author of Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music
Marisol Berríos-Miranda is affiliate professor of ethnomusicology and lecturer in the Honors Program at the University of Washington. She is the author of numerous articles on salsa and Puerto Rican musical culture. Shannon Dudley is associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Washington. He is the author of Carnival Music of Trinidad and Music from Behind the Bridge: Steelband Spirit and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago. Michelle Habell-Pallán is associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture. Together they curated the exhibition, American Sabor, which was created by Experience Music Project (now the Museum of Pop Culture) and organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
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