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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. 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 / R

Author

Wilcken, Lois, Glasser, Ruth, Manuel, Peter, Austerlitz, Paul, Flores, Juan, Hill, Donald, Kasinitz, Philip, Slater, Les, Allen, Ray

Publisher

New York: New York Folklore Society: Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252070426

Subjects

Music, History, Arts