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

by Ray Allen

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The Big Apple has been a crossroads for Caribbean music and culture since the early years of this century. This 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.

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Ray Allen is a professor of music and American studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. His coedited collections include Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music and Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music and Identity in New York.

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Music, Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
DDC/MDS
781.64Arts & recreationMusicGeneral principles and musical formsTraditions of musicWestern popular music {equally instrumental and vocal}
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ML3477.1 .I85MusicLiterature on musicLiterature on musicHistory and criticismPopular music

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