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.

Genres: Music, Cultural Studies, Nonfiction

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[sonny singh suchdev · Rating 4 out of 5]

quite the outernational analysis of popular music.