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Jump up! : Caribbean carnival music in New York City

Allen, Ray, author

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Popular music New York (State) New York History and criticism. / Steel bands (Music) New York (State) New York. / Soca History and criticism. / Popular music Caribbean Area History and criticism. / Caribbean Americans New York (State) New York Music History and criticism. / Carnival New York (State) New York.
• ISBN: 9780190656843, 9780190656850

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
ML3477.8.N48 A55 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE