| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 295 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
American musicspheres |
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American musicspheres.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Carnival music and diasporic transnationalism -- Carnival music in Trinidad and into the diaspora -- Harlem's Caribbean dance orchestras and early calypsonians -- Harlem Carnival : Dame Lorraine dances and the Seventh Avenue Street Parade -- Carnival comes to Brooklyn -- The Brooklyn steelband movement -- The Brooklyn Soca connection -- Brooklyn Soca as transnational expression -- J'Ouvert in Brooklyn : revitalizing Carnival tradition -- "We jammin' still" : Brooklyn Carnival in the new millennium |
| Summary |
'Jump Up!' provides a comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the 1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural context for the study. Blending urban studies, oral history, archival research, and ethnography, the work examines how members of New York's diverse Anglophile-Caribbean communities forged transnational identities through the self-conscious embrace, transformation, and hybridization of select Carnival music styles and performances. The text fills a significant void in our understanding of how Caribbean Carnival music-specifically calypso, soca (soul/calypso), and steelband-evolved in the second half of the twentieth century as it flowed between its island homeland and its burgeoning New York migrant community |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 2, 2020) |
| Subject |
Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism
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Steel bands (Music) -- New York (State) -- New York
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Soca -- History and criticism
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Popular music -- Caribbean Area -- History and criticism
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Caribbean Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism
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Carnival -- New York (State) -- New York
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Carnival
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Popular music
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Soca
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Steel bands (Music)
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Caribbean Area
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New York (State) -- New York
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190656881 |
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0190656883 |
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9780190656874 |
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0190656875 |
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