This astonishing book deals in absorbing detail with the multiplying hybrids now loosely referred to as world music.

Jazz Times

<i>Dangerous Crossroads</i> presents a plea: for connection, empathy and kinship like none we've heard before.

LA Weekly

A major voice of conscience in US cultural studies ... Lipsitz's range is as breathtaking as his insights are shrewd.

Artforum

In a world tour that touches down in Havana, Port-au-Prince, Kingston, Budapest, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo, George Lipsitz explores the fusion of immigrant and mainstream cultures to be found in world music including rap, jazz, reggae, zouk, bhangra, juju, swamp pop, Puerto Rican bugalu and Chicano punk.
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This volume provides coverage of musical styles from around the world, from Havana to Tokyo. It explores the fusion of immigrant and mainstream cultures displayed in world music, including: rap, jazz, reggae, zouk, bhangra, juju, swamp pop, and Puerto Rican Bugalu and Chicano punk.
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"Astonishing." -Jazz Times

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781859840351
Publisert
1997-05-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
403 gr
Høyde
221 mm
Bredde
198 mm
Dybde
11 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
204

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

George Lipsitz is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Midnight: Life and Labor in the 1940s, Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture, The Sidewalks of St Louis and A Life in Struggle: Ivor Perry and the Culture of Opposition, which was the winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Press Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations.