Jump Up!: Caribbean Carnival Music in New York

by Ray Allen

Book Overview

Jump Up Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the 1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural context for the study. Blending oral history, archival research, and ethnography, Jump Up examines how members of New York's diverse Anglophile-Caribbean communities forged transnational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190656859
• ISBN13: 9780190656850
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"