African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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252 p, Book Description A portrait of a diaspora community in motion, this book documents the social and cultural development of a people “without history,” a people who have sometimes been dismissed as foreigners who merely perpetuate the culture of the homeland rather than becoming “truly” Caribbean. Also contains a CD --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. (Amazon);
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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184 p, 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.;
La Habana, Cuba: Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de Cultura
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477 p, Examines the musical traditions of the African population in Cuba, including rhythmic and melodic features, instrumentation, and vocal characteristics.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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489 p, Examines the musical traditions of the African population in Cuba, including rhythmic and melodic features, instrumentation, and vocal characteristics.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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363 p, "A reprint of this extensive study of Afro-Cuban music examines the musical traditions of the African population in Cuba, including rhythmic and melodic features, instrumentation, and vocal characteristics. It must be studied in conjunction with Ortiz's Los bailes y el teatro de los negros en el folklore de Cuba (1993) and Los instrumentos de la música afrocubana (1995), both of which have been reprinted. The three works have also been reprinted in Spain (Madrid: Editorial Música Mundana Maqueda, 1997)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.