Dangerous Crossroads Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place

by Lipsitz, George

• ISBN13: 9781859840351
• ISBN10: 1859840353
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

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 Chicano punk.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Kalfou Danjere	p. 1
Diasporic Noise: History, Hip Hop, and the Post-colonial Politics of Sound	p. 23
"The Shortest Way Through": Strategic Anti-essentialism in Popular Music	p. 49
That's My Blood Down There	p. 69
London Calling: Pop Reggae and the Atlantic World	p. 95
Immigration and Assimilation: Rai, Reggae, and Bhangramuffin	p. 117
But Is It Political? Self-activity and the State	p. 135
"It's All Wrong, but It's All Right": Creative Misunderstanding in Inter-cultural Communication	p. 157
Albert King, Where Y'at?	p. 171
Index	p. 183
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