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Jump up! : Caribbean Carnival music in New York City
- Title
- Jump up! : Caribbean Carnival music in New York City / Ray Allen.
- Author
- Allen, Ray
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- vii, 295 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 'Jump Up!' provides a comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the 1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural context for the study. Blending urban studies, oral history, archival research, and ethnography, the work examines how members of New York's diverse Anglophile-Caribbean communities forged transnational identities through the self-conscious embrace, transformation, and hybridization of select Carnival music styles and performances. The text fills a significant void in our understanding of how Caribbean Carnival music-specifically calypso, soca (soul/calypso), and steelband-evolved in the second half of the twentieth century as it flowed between its island homeland and its burgeoning New York migrant community.
- Series Statement
- American musicspheres
- Uniform Title
- American musicspheres.
- Subjects
- Popular music
- Steel bands (Music)
- Carnival
- Soca
- Caribbean Americans > New York (State) > New York > Music > History and criticism
- Popular music > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism
- Popular music > Caribbean Area > History and criticism
- New York (State) > New York
- Black author
- Caribbean Area
- Steel bands (Music) > New York (State) > New York
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Soca > History and criticism
- Carnival > New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 261-267) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Carnival music and diasporic transnationalism -- Carnival music in Trinidad and into the diaspora -- Harlem's Caribbean dance orchestras and early calypsonians -- Harlem Carnival : Dame Lorraine dances and the Seventh Avenue Street Parade -- Carnival comes to Brooklyn -- The Brooklyn steelband movement -- The Brooklyn Soca connection -- Brooklyn Soca as transnational expression -- J'Ouvert in Brooklyn : revitalizing Carnival tradition -- "We jammin' still" : Brooklyn Carnival in the new millennium.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1586
- ISBN
- 9780190656843
- 0190656840
- 9780190656850
- 0190656859
- LCCN
- 2018057149
- 40029360930
- OCLC
- 1079400580
- Author
- Allen, Ray, author.
- Title
- Jump up! : Caribbean Carnival music in New York City / Ray Allen.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- American musicspheresAmerican musicspheres.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 261-267) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029360930
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1586