Cart
Free US shipping over $10
Proud to be B-Corp

Dangerous Crossroads George Lipsitz

Dangerous Crossroads By George Lipsitz

Dangerous Crossroads by George Lipsitz


$11,39
Condition - Like New
Only 1 left

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.

Dangerous Crossroads Summary

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

About George Lipsitz

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.

Additional information

GOR013521639
9781859849354
1859849350
Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place by George Lipsitz
Used - Like New
Hardback
Verso Books
19941017
200
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

Customer Reviews - Dangerous Crossroads