Here's a list of books that we recommend to anyone interested in further exploring the roots of Latin music. We would like thank Charity Dell for organizing this list. NOTE: this list is in no particular order of importance.

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1. BACHATA: A Social History of Dominican Popular
Music. Deborah Pacini Hernandez.
Temple University Press, 1995.
ISBN 1566393000

2. BOSSA NOVA: The Story of the Brazilian Sound that
Seduced the World.
Ruy Castro. Chicago Review Press, 2003.
ISBN 1556524943

3. BRAZILIAN POPULAR MUSIC AND GLOBALIZATION.
Charles Perrone. Routledge, 2002.
ISBN 0415936950

4. THE BRAZILIAN SOUND: Samba, Bossa Nova and the
Popular Music of Brazil.
Chris McGowan; Ricardo Pessanha.
Temple University Press, 1998.

5. CARRIBEAN CURRENTS: Caribbean Music from Rumba to
Reggae. Peter Manuel.
Temple University Press, 1995.
ISBN 1566393396

6. CUBAN FIRE: The Saga of Salsa and Latin Jazz.
Isabelle Leymarie.
Continuum Publishing Group, 2002.
ISBN 0826455867

7. CUBAN MUSIC: From Son and Rhumba to the Buena Vista
Social Club and Timba Cubana.
Maya Roy; Denise Asfar.
Markus Wiener Pub., 2002.
ISBN 1558762825

8. CUBANO BE, CUBANO BOP: One Hundred Years of Jazz inCuba.
Lenardo Acosta.
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003.
ISBN 15834147X

9. DANCING WITH FIDEL.
Stephen Foehr.
Sanctuary Publishing, 2001.
ISBN 1860743463

10. FACES OF SALSA: A Spoken History of the Music.
Leonardo Padura Fuentes.
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003.
ISBN 1588340805

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