Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place

This volume provides coverage of musical styles from around the world, from Havana, Port-au-Prince, Kingston, Budapest, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles 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.