Long live salsa! Long live cumbia! Class and ethnicity in Latin American popular music (1970–1980)

Popular music offers a valuable perspective for social analysis, particularly regarding social class and ethnicity, due to the characteristics of their producers and consu-mers. This text explores the connections between salsa, Peruvian cumbia-chicha and their ability to represent and shape identities through its fundamental presence at dance parties. Thus, this study allows us to retrieve the voices of popular sectors and the questions generated from there.