Jump Up!
Caribbean Carnival Music in New York
Published on 8. October 2019
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-065684-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 identities through the self-conscious embrace and transformation of select Carnival music styles and performances. The work fills a significant void in our understanding of how Caribbean Carnival music-specifically calypso, soca (soul/calypso), and steelband-evolved in the second half of the twentieth century as it flowed between its Island homeland and its bourgeoning New York migrant community. Jump Up! addresses the issues of music, migration, and identity head on, exploring the complex cycling of musical practices and the back-and-forth movement of singers, musicians, arrangers, producers, and cultural entrepreneurs between New York's diasporic communities and the Caribbean.
Reviews / Votes
Jump Up!: Caribbean Carnival Music in New York is a mustread for all researchers, students, musicians, aspiring promoters, and afficionados of Caribbean musical cultures in general, and of Carnival music, steelband, and masquerade in particular. Its wealth of information, critical perspectives and musical analyses on one of North America's largest outdoor festivals are illuminating. * Jocelyne Guilbault, New West Indian Guide * Ray Allen's masterful history, Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first book-length exploration of the twinned histories of Caribbean Carnival and of West Indian music in New York City, and it will be the authoritative word on the subject for decades to come. * Gage Averill, Gotham Center for New York City History * Allen conducted thorough research for this book and took care in making it accessible to readers within and outside academia. This is an important book for understanding Caribbean networks within New York and the ways people used music to create and sustain the Caribbean community there. * Caribbean Quarterly * Professor Allen leaves no stone unturned. His analysis of the future of carnival in New York City ought to make everyone read Jump Up. This masterpiece belongs in every Caribbean-American home. * Everybody's Caribbean Magazine *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-065684-3 (9780190656843)
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Person
Ray Allen is Professor of Music and American Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he teaches classes on American music, world music, and urban folk culture. His research has ranged from African American gospel, Caribbean Carnival music, and the folk music revival to the works of composers Ruth Crawford Seeger and George Gershwin. His books include Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City, Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music in New York City (co-edited with Lois Wilcken), Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth Century American Music (co-edited with Elli Hisama), and Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Urban Folk Music Revival.
Content
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Carnival Music in Trinidad and into the Diaspora
- Chapter 2- Harlem's Caribbean Dance Orchestras and Early Calypsonians words
- Chapter 3 - Harlem Carnival: Dame Lorraine Dances and the Seventh Avenue Street Parade
- Chapter 4 - Carnival Comes to Brooklyn
- Chapter 5 - The Brooklyn Steelband Movement
- Chapter 6 - The Brooklyn Soca Connection - The Record Companies
- Chapter 7 - Brooklyn Soca as Transnational Expression
- Chapter 8 - J'ouvert in Brooklyn J'Ouvert: Revitalizing Carnival Tradition words
- Chapter 9 - "We Jammin' Still"- Brooklyn Carnival in the New Millennium words
- Notes
- References
- Interviews