Bibliograph

Type

Label

Jump up!, Caribbean Carnival music in New York City, Ray Allen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 261-267) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jump up!

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1079400580

Responsibility statement

Ray Allen

Series statement

American musicspheres

Sub title

Caribbean Carnival music in New York City

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

Table Of 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

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