Includes discography (pages 160-161) and bibliographical references.
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.