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From bomba to hip-hop : Puerto Rican culture and Latino identity / Juan Flores.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E184.P85 F58 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flores, Juan, 1943-2014.
- Series:
- Popular cultures, everyday lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puerto Ricans--United States--Social life and customs.
- Puerto Ricans.
- Puerto Ricans--United States--Ethnic identity.
- Arts, Puerto Rican--United States.
- Arts, Puerto Rican.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- United States--Social life and customs--1971-.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Puerto Ricans--Ethnic identity.
- Puerto Ricans--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- "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 essays address many of the contradictions behind the complex process of identity construction among Puerto Ricans and other Latinos. Focuses on popular music and literature"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
- 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."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- ISBN:
- 0231110766
- 9780231110761
- 0231110774
- 9780231110778
- OCLC:
- 42476702
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
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