My Music Is My Flag
Subtitle: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940 (Latinos in American Society & Culture)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 23, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780520208902
Subjects: Folk music; Social groups & communities; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; Music/Songbooks; History: American; Music; USA; Ethnic; History & Criticism - General; Latin America - General; History / General; Ethnomusicology
First sentence: One spring day in 1931 a delegation of some of Puerto Rico's most outstanding musicians went to Viejo San Juan to see the then governor of Puerto Rico, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.