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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York Folklore Society : Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, c1998.Description: 185 p. : ill ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0966147200 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Caribbean popular music and identity in New York
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.64/09729/097471 21
LOC classification:
  • ML 3477.1 I82 1998
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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) ML 3477.1 I82 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000039831

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.

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