Dangerous Crossroads - (Haymarket) by George Lipsitz (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In a wild tour across the globe, touching 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 displayed in world music, including rap, jazz, reggae, zouk, bhangra, juju, swamp pop and Puerto Rican Bugalu, and Chicano punk.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"This astonishing book deals in absorbing detail with the multiplying hybrids now loosely referred to as world music."--<i>Jazz Times</i> <p/>"<i>Dangerous Crossroads</i> presents a plea: for connection, empathy and kinship like none we've heard before."--<i>LA Weekly</i> <p/>"A major voice of conscience in US cultural studies ... Lipsitz's range is as breathtaking as his insights are shrewd."--<i>Artforum</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>George Lipsitz</b> is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of <i>Midnight: Life and Labor in the 1940s</i>, <i> Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture</i>, <i> The Sidewalks of St Louis </i>and<i> A Life in Struggle: Ivor Perry and the Culture of Opposition</i>, which was the winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Press Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations.
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