From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity
Author:   Juan Flores
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231110761


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   15 May 2000
Format:   Hardback
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From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity


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-- Arlene Davila, Latino(a) Research Review

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Author:   Juan Flores
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9780231110761


ISBN 10:   0231110766
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   15 May 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Prelude: From Bomba to Hip-Hop Introduction 1. pueblo pueblo : Popular Culture in Time 2. The Lite Colonial: Diversions of Puerto Rican Discourse 3. Broken English Memories: Languages in the Trans-Colony 4. Salvacion 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. The Latino Imaginary: Meanings of Community and Identity 10. Latino Studies: New Contexts, New Concepts Postscript 1998: None of the Above

Reviews

In his eloquent essay collection... Flores has compiled a decade of research and meditations on 'America's fastest-growing minority,' Latinos. -- Suzy Hansen, New York Times Book Review Well written and informative. Anyone wanting insight into Puerto Rican history and culture will find it enlightening. The book also offers solid supplemental reading for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in music history, Puerto Rican history, cultural studies, and sociology classes. -- Hispanic Outlook Flores's invaluable book establishes a new parameter for the field of Latino/a studies. Poignant and full of moving accounts, this volume does an inestimable service to both scholars and general readers. -- Choice The latest work by Juan Flores, the most prominent thinker on the most current topics debated in Latino studies...indispensable. -- Zaragosa Vargas, Journal of American History


""In his eloquent essay collection... Flores has compiled a decade of research and meditations on 'America's fastest-growing minority,' Latinos."" -- Suzy Hansen, New York Times Book Review ""Well written and informative. Anyone wanting insight into Puerto Rican history and culture will find it enlightening. The book also offers solid supplemental reading for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in music history, Puerto Rican history, cultural studies, and sociology classes."" -- Hispanic Outlook ""Flores's invaluable book establishes a new parameter for the field of Latino/a studies. Poignant and full of moving accounts, this volume does an inestimable service to both scholars and general readers."" -- Choice ""The latest work by Juan Flores, the most prominent thinker on the most current topics debated in Latino studies...indispensable."" -- Zaragosa Vargas, Journal of American History


Author Information

Juan Flores is professor of Black and Puerto Rican studies at Hunter College and professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and has written and lectured widely on the subject of Puerto Rican and Latino culture. His publications include Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Culture and La venganza de Cortijo y otros ensayos.

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