Island sounds in the global city : Caribbean popular music and identity in New York / edited by Ray Allen and Lois Wilcken. Caribbean popular music and identity in New York /

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Other Authors: Allen, Ray, Wilcken, Lois
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York Folklore Society ; , c1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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