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Island sounds in the global city : Caribbean popular music and identity in New York

Title: Island sounds in the global city : Caribbean popular music and identity in New York / edited by Ray Allen and Lois Wilcken.
Publication: New York : New York Folklore Society : Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, c1998.

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Description

185 p. : ill; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Caribbean popular music and identity in New York

Subjects

Popular music > Caribbean Area > History and criticism
Puerto Ricans > New York (State) > New York > Music > History and criticism
Popular music > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism
Caribbean Americans > New York (State) > New York > Music > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

JME 98-426

ISBN

0966147200 (pbk.)

LCCN

97081177 /MN

OCLC

38849963

Title

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

Imprint

New York : New York Folklore Society : Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, c1998.

Bibliography

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

Added Author

Allen, Ray.

Wilcken, Lois.

Research Call Number

JME 98-426

Sc E 00-514

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