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Island sounds in the global city : Caribbean popular music and identity in New York / Caribbean popular music and identity in New York edited by Ray Allen and Lois Wilcken. - New York : New York Folklore Society : Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, c1998. - 185 p. : ill ; 23 cm.

Includes discography (p. 160-161) and bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN: 0966147200 (pbk.)

LCCN: 97081177

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Popular music--History and criticism.--New York (State)--New York
Popular music--History and criticism.--Caribbean Area
Caribbean Americans--Music--History and criticism.--New York (State)--New York
Puerto Ricans--Music--History and criticism.--New York (State)--New York
CEH
Colección Estudios Haitianos

LC Class. No.: ML 3477.1 / I82 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 781.64/09729/097471