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From Bomba to Hip-Hop

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0231110766, 9780231110761, 9780231500166
LCC
E184.P85 F58 2000
Open Library ID
OL48187M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1058711 bytes)
Pages
272\259
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

Neither immigrants nor ethnics, neither foreign nor ''hyphenated Americans'' in the usual sense of that term, Puerto Ricans in New York have created a distinct identity both on the island of Puerto Rico and in the cultural landscape of the United States. Juan Flores considers the uniqueness of Puerto Rican culture and identity in relation to that of other Latino groups in the United States -as well as to other minority groups, especially African Americans. Architecture and urban space, literary traditions, musical styles, and cultural movements provide some of the sites and moments of a cultural world defined by the interplay of continuity and transformation, heritage and innovation, roots and fusion. Exploring this wide range of cultural expression -both in the diaspora and in Puerto Rico -Flores highlights the rich complexities and fertile contradictions of Latino identity.

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