Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place (Haymarket Series)
Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place (Haymarket Series)
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Jazz Times
This astonishing book deals in absorbing detail with the multiplying hybrids now loosely referred to as world music.
Book Description
An intelligent survey of world music's inter-cultural fusions. In a wild tour across the globe, touching 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 displayed in world music, including rap, jazz, reggae, zouk, bhangra, juju, swamp pop, and Puerto Rican bugalu and Chicago punk.
Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place (Haymarket Series)
Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place (Haymarket Series),George Lipsitz,Verso,1859840353,Anthropology - Cultural,Archaeology / Anthropology,General,Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal,Music,Popular Culture - General
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