Island sounds in the global city : Caribbean popular music and identity in New York / edited by Ray Allen and Lois Wilcken.

Other author Allen, Ray editor.
Other author Wilcken, Lois, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : New York Folklore Society : Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, ©1998.
Description185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Popular music--New York (State). --New York. --History and criticism.
Popular music--Caribbean Area. --History and criticism.
Caribbean Americans--New York (State). --New York. --Music. --History and criticism.
Puerto Ricans--New York (State). --New York. --Music. --History and criticism.
Popular music--West Indies. --History and criticism.

Portion of title Caribbean popular music and identity in New York
Contents Introduction: Island sounds in the global city / Ray Allen & Lois Wilcken -- Buscando ambiente: Puerto Rican musicians in New York City, 1917-1940 / Ruth Glasser -- Representations of New York City in Latin music / Peter Manuel -- From transplant to transnational circuit: merengue in New York / Paul Austerlitz -- Recapturing history: the Puerto Rican roots of hip hop culture / Juan Flores -- "I am happy just to be in this sweet land of liberty": the New York city calypso craze of the 1930s and 1940s / Donald Hill -- Community dramatized, community contested: the politics of celebration in the Brooklyn carnival / Philip Kasinitz -- Steel pan grows in Brooklyn: Trinidadian music and cultural identity / Ray Allen and Les Slater -- Moving the Big Apple: Tabou combo's diasporic dreams / Gage Averill -- The changing hats of Haitian staged folklore in New York City / Lois Wilcken.
Abstract From the barrios of East Harlem to the Streets of Crown Heights, Caribbean music permeates New York City's contemporary soundscape. Indeed, the Big Apple has been a crossroads for Caribbean music and culture since the early years of this century. Island Sounds in the Global City, a collection of critical essays, surveys a rich mosaic of popular Caribbean styles and explores the fascinating relationship between music and cultural identity in America's largest, most diverse urban center.
Bibliography noteIncludes discography (pages 160-161) and bibliographical references.
LCCN 97081177
ISBN0966147200 (pbk.)

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