Island sounds in the global city : Caribbean popular music and identity in New York /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Allen, Ray, Wilcken, Lois
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York Folklore Society : Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, [1998]
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.

Table of 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.