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

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.

Author: George Lipsitz
Publisher: Verso
Published: 05/17/1997
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 11.05h x 8.22w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781859840351
ISBN10: 1859840353
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Music | Genres & Styles | Pop Vocal

About the Author
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.