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Island sounds in the global city : Caribbean popular music and identity in New York
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- Creator
- edited by Ray Allen and Lois Wilcken
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : New York Folklore Society : Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, [1998]
- ©1998
- Physical Details
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- 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780966147209, 0966147200
- OCLC
- ocm38849963
- Includes discography (pages 160-161) and bibliographical references.
- 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