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From bomba to hip-hop : Puerto Rican culture and Latino identity /

"Essential reading for understanding both national and panethnic issues that influence cultural expression and the construction of Puerto Rican identity in the US. Analyzes distinctiveness of Puerto Rican culture in New York in relation to that of other US Latino groups. Theoretically grounded...

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Main Author: Flores, Juan, 1943-2014.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2000.
Series:Popular cultures, everyday lives
Subjects and Genres:
Since 1971
Puerto Ricans > United States > Social life and customs.
Puerto Ricans > United States > Ethnic identity.
Arts, Puerto Rican > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
Portoricains > États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes.
Portoricains > Identité ethnique > États-Unis.
Arts portoricains > États-Unis.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
15.85 history of America.
Arts, Puerto Rican.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture.
Puerto Ricans > Ethnic identity.
Puerto Ricans > Social life and customs.
Kulturelle Identität.
Puerto Ricaner
Puertoricanen.
Culturele identiteit.
United States > Social life and customs > 1971-
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 1971-
United States.
USA.
Puertoricaner.
Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.
  • "Pueblo pueblo": popular culture in time
  • 2.
  • Lite colonial: diversions of Puerto Rican discourse
  • 3.
  • Broken English memories: languages in the trans-colony
  • 4.
  • "Salvación Casita": space, performance, and community
  • 5.
  • "Cha-cha with a backbeat": songs and stories of Latin boogaloo
  • 6.
  • Puerto rocks: rap, roots, and amnesia
  • 7.
  • Pan-latino/trans-latino: Puerto Ricans in the "New Nueva York"
  • 8.
  • Life off the hyphen: Latino literature and Nuyorican traditions
  • 9.
  • Latino imaginary: meanings of community and identity
  • 10.
  • Latino studies: New contexts, new concepts
  • Postscript: "None of the above."

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