Salsa Music By Tito Nieves: Play Analysis

Salsa music provides hispanic people with a platform to express their culture through the use of various rhythms and beats. Salsa’s creative outlet paved the way for many famous artists, including Tito Nieves who stars in the off broadway play I like it like that. This play focuses on a family living in New York City during the 70’s. During this time period, the city was under many hardships that affected people's everyday lives. The terrible economy and high crime rates at the time made it stressful for many New Yorkers, but Salsa provided hispanics with an escape. In the play, everyone is able to resort to music in their times of needs, especially the women who are limited with there self expression. In the hispanic community women are …show more content…
Although she is not the financial provider for the house, her job is to run the household and take care of their four children. Despite the fact that she doesn't take on the responsibility of providing money for the family, she still has to take care of them in every way. This provides problems for Carmen because of on top of raising her children, she has to deal with all the problems that her family causes, taking care of the home, and raising children. This proves to be very stressful for her because she has so much on her shoulders. Carmen isn't given any breaks because being a mother is her full time job, as she was told by her husband. She is not given free time, and has no one to express her concerns to. However, when she sings and listens to her salsa music, she is able to find that escape. Salsa provides her with something that can relate to the problems that she is going through. Many Salsa songs speak about the problems that women have to go through and the issues that many spanish women face. Although it does not heal her problems, it helps to provide a little relief. This is because Carmen is able to find something that she can relate to and a way to get her problems