The pop music of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, and other Carribean cultures has unmistakably influenced popular music in the United States and throughout the world. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza.
Admission is free.
Each section includes an exploration of the region's history and a look at the evolution of the island's popular music industry. Among the items in the exhibition are photographs, music manuscripts, published piano-vocal music, and promotional materials. The exhibition opens with an assortment of tuned percussion instruments, including box drums, claves, gourd rattles, and mbiras, for use by visitors to the exhibition. There also are television monitors which play music videos from Guadeloupe, Zouk video compilations, and music documentaries from Trinidadian television. In the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound on the Library's third floor, the exhibition will focus more specifically on sound recordings, including displays of LPs and CDs from Caribbean countries, music videos, and record catalogs.