| Portion of title |
Caribbean popular music and identity in New York |
| 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. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes discography (pages 160-161) and bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 97081177 |
| ISBN | 0966147200 (pbk.) |
