Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place

By George Lipsitz

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859840353
• ISBN13: 9781859840351
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 11.1"