An intelligent survey of world music's inter-cultural fusions

In a wild tour across the globe, touching down in Havana, Port-au-Prince, Kingston, Budapest, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo, George Lipsitz explores the fusion of immigrant and mainstream cultures displayed in world music, including rap, jazz, reggae, zouk, bhangra, juju, swamp pop, and Puerto Rican bugalu and Chicago punk.

“This astonishing book deals in absorbing detail with the multiplying hybrids now loosely referred to as world music.” – Jazz Times

“Dangerous Crossroads presents a plea: for connection, empathy, and a kinship like none we've ever heard before.” — L.A. Weekly

George Lipsitz is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Publication
October 1994; Paper: May 1997

Haymarket Series

320 pages
10 b/w photos

Cloth
1 85984 935 0
£35 / US$35 / CAN$ 36.99

Paper
1 85984 035 3
£12 / US$20 / CAN$22.99