Island sounds in the global city
Subtitle: Caribbean popular music and identity in New York
By: edited by Ray Allen and Lois Wilcken.
Contributors: Allen, Ray.; Wilcken, Lois.
Publisher: New York Folklore Society; Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.; Popular music -- Caribbean Area -- History and criticism.; Caribbean Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism.; Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism.
Other titles: Caribbean popular music and identity in New York
Description: From the barrios of East Harlem to the Streets of Crown Heights, Caribbean music permeates New York City's contemporary soundscape. Indeed, the Big Apple has been a crossroads for Caribbean music and culture since the early years of this century. Island Sounds in the Global City, a collection of critical essays, surveys a rich mosaic of popular Caribbean styles and explores the fascinating relationship between music and cultural identity in America's largest, most diverse urban center.
Notes: Includes discography (p. 160-161) and bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Island sounds in the global city / Ray Allen & Lois Wilcken; title: Buscando ambiente: Puerto Rican musicians in New York City, 1917-1940 / Ruth Glasser; title: Representations of New York City in Latin music / Peter Manuel; title: From transplant to transnational circuit: merengue in New York / Paul Austerlitz; title: Recapturing history: the Puerto Rican roots of hip hop culture / Juan Flores; title: "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; title: Community dramatized, community contested: the politics of celebration in the Brooklyn carnival / Philip Kasinitz; title: Steel pan grows in Brooklyn: Trinidadian music and cultural identity / Ray Allen and Les Slater; title: Moving the Big Apple: Tabou combo's diasporic dreams / Gage Averill; title: The changing hats of Haitian staged folklore in New York City / Lois Wilcken.