Cover -- Listening to Salsa -- MUSIC / CULTURE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Part I The Danza and the Plena: Racializing Women, Feminizing Music -- A Literary Prelude -- Chapter 1 A White Lady Called the Danza -- Chapter 2 A Sensual Mulatta Called the Plena -- Chapter 3 Desiring the Racial Other: Rosario Ferré's Feminist Reconstructions of Danza and Plena -- Part II The Plural Sites of Salsa -- A Postmodern Preface -- Chapter 4 Situating Salsa -- Chapter 5 Ideological Negotiations: Between Hegemony and Resistance -- Chapter 6 Cultural (Mis)Translations and Crossover Nightmares -- Part III Dissonant Melodies: Singing Gender, Desire, and Conflict -- Theoretical Pretexts: Listening (as) Woman -- Chapter 7 Woman as Absence: Hetero(homo)sexual Desire in the Bolero -- Chapter 8 Patriarchal Synecdoches: Of Women's Butts and Feminist Rebuttals -- Chapter 9 Singing the Gender Wars -- Chapter 10 Singing Female Subjectivities -- Part IV Así Somos, Así Son: Rewriting Salsa -- Listening to the Listeners: An Introduction -- Chapter 11 Así Son: Constructing Woman -- Chapter 12 Así Somos: Rewriting Patriarchy -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index of Songs and Recordings -- General Index -- Illustrations -- Piano music for the danza "Laura y Georgina" -- Rafael Cortijo playing the timbales -- Double article reviewing salsa concert and rock concert -- Orquesta de la Luz -- El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico -- Daniel Santos, El inigualable -- The New Xavier Cugat Orchestra CD cover -- Illustration in Abran paso -- La Lupe.