Dangerous crossroads : popular music, postmodernism, and the poetics of place
In cities around the globe, immigrant populations are finding their identity by making music which combines their own experiences with the forms of the mainstream culture they have come to inhabit. Dangerous Crossroads surveys an extraordinary range of these musical fusions: Puerto Rican Bugalu in New York; Algerian rai in Paris; Chicano punk in Los Angeles; Indigenous rock in Australia; chanson Quebecois in Montreal; swamp pop in Houston and New Orleans; reggae, bhangra, and juju in London; and zouk, rap, and jazz in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Throughout, Lipsitz highlights the issues that unite inter-ethnic music fusions across geographic boundaries. He demonstrates that what might be interpreted as a postmodern process of meaningless juxtapositions of musical forms ripped from their original contexts may actually be a redeployment of traditional music to serve untraditional purposes
viii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781859849354, 1859849350
30593978
1. Kalfou Danjere
2. Diasporic Noise: History, Hip Hop, and the Post-colonial Politics of Sound
3. "The Shortest Way Through": Strategic Anti-essentialism in Popular Music
4. That's My Blood Down There
5. London Calling: Pop Reggae and the Atlantic World
6. Immigration and Assimilation: Rai, Reggae, and Bhangramuffin
7. But Is It Political? Self-activity and the State
8. "It's All Wrong, but It's All Right": Creative Misunderstanding in Inter-cultural Communication
9. Albert King, Where Y'at?