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

Publication Info. New York : New York Folklore Society : Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, [1998]
©1998

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3477.8.N399 I8 1998    Available  ---
Description 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
Popular music.
New York (State) -- New York.
Popular music -- Caribbean Area -- History and criticism.
Caribbean Area.
Caribbean Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism.
Caribbean Americans.
Music.
Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism.
Puerto Ricans.
Added Author Allen, Ray.
Wilcken, Lois.
Added Title Caribbean popular music and identity in New York
ISBN 0966147200 paperback