Dangerous Crossroads

Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place

George Lipsitz author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Verso Books

Published:17th May '97

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Dangerous Crossroads cover

"Astonishing." -Jazz Times

This volume provides coverage of musical styles from around the world, from Havana to Tokyo. It 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.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.

This astonishing book deals in absorbing detail with the multiplying hybrids now loosely referred to as world music. * Jazz Times *
Dangerous Crossroads presents a plea: for connection, empathy and kinship like none we've heard before. * LA Weekly *
A major voice of conscience in US cultural studies ... Lipsitz's range is as breathtaking as his insights are shrewd. * Artforum *

ISBN: 9781859840351

Dimensions: 221mm x 198mm x 11mm

Weight: 403g

204 pages