Dangerous Crossroads by George Lipsitz

Dangerous Crossroads by George Lipsitz

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Summary

This text focuses on the fusion music created by immigrant populations. Lipsitz finds that inter-cultural fusion music displays the contours of ethnic anxiety in an age characterized by the rapid movement of people, capital and images across national borders.

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Dangerous Crossroads by George Lipsitz

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.
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.
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ISBN 13 9781859849354
ISBN 10 1859849350
Title Dangerous Crossroads
Author George Lipsitz
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Verso Books
Year published 1994-10-17
Number of pages 200
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.