{"id":2164,"date":"2009-07-15T13:59:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T18:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:58:13","slug":"el-arte-de-tocar-el-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=2164","title":{"rendered":"El Arte De Tocar El Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from<\/strong>\tRaquel Rivera
\nto<\/strong>\twayne marshall, Deborah Pacini Hernandez
\ndate<\/strong>\tWed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:38 AM
\nsubject<\/strong>\triddle me this<\/p>\n

Hi dear compis.<\/p>\n

I still don’t quite understand how the amazon sales work, but I got a big kick out of seeing us #1 in salsa and and #1 reggae. And #11 in rap.<\/p>\n

* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #53,648 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)<\/p>\n

Popular in these categories: (What’s this?)
\n #1 in \t Books > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Ethnic & International > Salsa<\/a>
\n #1 in \t Books > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Reggae<\/a>
\n #11 in Books > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Rap<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, and did you hear about a “reggaeton” entry being added to the 2009 Merriam-Webster dictionary?
\nhttp:\/\/reggaetonica.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/reggaeton-in-merriam-webster-dictionary.html
\n<\/a>
\nabrazos,
\nRaq<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

from<\/strong>\twayne marshall
\nto<\/strong>\tRaquel Rivera
\ncc<\/strong>\tDeborah Pacini Hernandez
\ndate<\/strong>\tWed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM
\nsubject<\/strong>\tRe: riddle me this<\/p>\n

Jajaja, I just clicked on the salsa bestsellers link and we’re already trailing a Lord of the Rings<\/a> piano book (WTF?). But on the up-side, we are ahead of such deservedly high ranking salsa tomes as El Arte De Tocar El Clarinete\/The Art of Clarinet Playing (Spanish Edition)<\/a> by Ra\u00fal Gutierrez and Creative Guitar 1: Cutting Edge Tech (v. 1)<\/a> by Sanctuary Press. Hmmm.<\/p>\n

And we now seem to be #4 on the reggae chart, behind three Bob Marley books (actually #3 is just the Kindle version of #2). Considering that 7 of the 10 reggae bestsellers are books about Marley, that’s pretty decent placement.<\/p>\n

At any rate, this has got to be an indicator of something — and something more than Amazon’s surprisingly crappy metadata. Also, the books in the rap section are more solid for some reason, so getting up to #11 on that chart is not too shabby, fwiw. (Of course, we’re now down to #20, so…)<\/p>\n

As for the dictionary entry, I’m glad they agreed with us on orthography. Pretty funny\/telling that it made it into Merriam-Webster before the RAE. That Solo Para post<\/a> is hilarious.<\/p>\n

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from Raquel Rivera to wayne marshall, Deborah Pacini Hernandez date Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:38 AM subject riddle me this Hi dear compis. I still don’t quite understand how the amazon sales work, but I got a big kick out of seeing us #1 in salsa and and #1 reggae. And #11 in rap. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,404,412,408,405,248],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookish","tag-hip-hop","tag-internet","tag-reggae","tag-reggaeton","tag-salsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}