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.;
New York, NY: Latin America Bureau (Research and Action) Distributed in North America by Monthly Review Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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151 p, "In this compact chronicle, Colombian journalist Hernando Calvo Ospina sorts through the savory mix of ingredients of salsa, which follows the tango, bossa nova, and reggae as the fourth significant urban dance rhythm to emerge in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and Latin and South American regions." (BNET);
