Somebody mentioned this book last year (big ups to that somebody!):
Dangerous Crossroads : Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place
by George Lipsitz
In cities around the globe, immigrant populations are finding their identity
by making music which combines their own experiences with the forms of the
mainstream culture they have come to inhabit. Dangerous Crossroads surveys
an extraordinary range of these musical fusions: Puerto Rican Bugalu in New
York; Algerian rai in Paris; Chicano punk in Los Angeles; Indigenous rock in
Australia; chanson Quebecois in Montreal; swamp pop in Houston and New
Orleans; reggae, bhangra, and juju in London; and zouk, rap, and jazz in
Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Throughout, Lipsitz highlights the issues
that unite inter-ethnic music fusions across geographic boundaries. He
demonstrates that what might be interpreted as a postmodern process of
meaningless juxtapositions of musical forms ripped from their original
contexts may actually be a redeployment of traditional music to serve
untraditional purposes. Lipsitz explores the ways in which ethnic difference
in popular music enables musicians from aggrieved populations to enjoy the
rewards of mainstream culture while boldly stating their divergence from it,
and how it offers a utopian model of inter-cultural cooperation, at the same
time making a spectacle out of ethnicity and reinforcing ethnic divisions.
Some inter-ethnic music has become part of significant movements for social
change; in other instances it has played a reactionary role. But in all the
case studies in this book, 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.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lars.Constien@t-online.de [mailto:Lars.Constien@t-online.de]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 12:04 PM
To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: Need ya help!!!
hi people!
need ya help;i´m looking for some good literature about acid jazz cause i´m
doin
my examen on this.so if you know books,articles,etc.,please mail it all to
me...
ahmmmmmm,one more thing:what´s your problem about phoenix??everywhere on
earth
there are dark spots of bad music...but we got the rhythm(rhythm is with
you,Luke....wasn´t that´s Obi´s words??).so,relax´n smile....
lars
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