From Bomba to Hip-Hop Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity

Name: From Bomba to Hip-Hop Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity
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ISBN: 9780231110778

ISBN-10: 0231110774

ISBN-13: 9780231110778

Edition: 2000

Authors: Juan Flores

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 5/24/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Prelude: From Bomba to Hip-Hop


Introduction



"pueblo pueblo": Popular Culture in Time



The Lite Colonial: Diversions of Puerto Rican Discourse



Broken English Memories: Languages in the Trans-Colony



"Salvacion Casita": Space, Performance, and Community



"Cha-Cha with a Backbeat": Songs and Stories of Latin Boogaloo



Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia



Pan-Latino/Trans-Latino: Puerto Ricans in the "New Nueva York"



Life Off the Hyphen: Latino Literature and Nuyorican Traditions



The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity



Latino Studies: New Contexts, New Concepts


Postscript: "None of the Above"


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments and Permissions


Index