There are actually no words in the English language to describe the magic and energy contained in this book.
A sole option here if you're not from Lat America: learn some Spanish while reading the book in English, and visit Salsa Pubs with live orchestras that play at least one of the salsa songs cited in its pages. And even better: put your feet on the floor and move to the rhythms of the pianos, the trumpets and el tambor. If any of this works, then take your bags and fly right away to Puerto Rico, Cuba or Colombia and walk the streets of Cali, feel the mega-diverse options of fruits, colours and flavours of the Tropics.
Some people would think of the rock as the heaviest form of music, with its darkest generes (death, black, trash and so on). Well it is not, most of it is just noise.
Salsa my friends, that's the answer. One of the most powerful, diverse and irreverent movements of human society. Don't leave this world without experience todo el sabor de la verdadera rumba que es la vida!