In Crossing Traditions: American Popular Music in Local and Global
Contexts, a wide range of scholarly contributions on the local and
global significance of American popular music examines the
connections between selected American blues, rock and roll, and
hip-hop music and their equivalents from Senegal, Nigeria, England,
India, and Mexico. Contributors show how American popular music
promotes local and global awareness of such key issues as economic
inequality and social marginalization while inspiring
cross-cultural and interethnic influences among regional and
transnational communities. Specifically, Crossing Traditions
highlights the impact of American popular music on the spread of
sounds, rhythms, styles, and ideas about freedom, justice, love,
and sexuality among local and global communities, all of which
share the same desires, hopes, and concerns despite geographic
differences. Contributors look at the local contexts of Chicago
blues, early rock and roll, white Christian rap, and Frank Zappa
alongside the global influence of Mahalia Jackson on Senegalese
blues, the transatlantic character of the British Invasion's
relationship to African American rock, and the impact of Latin
house music, global hip-hop, and Bhangra in cross-cultural
settings. Essays also draw on a broad range of disciplines in their
analyses: American studies, popular culture studies, transnational
studies, history, musicology, ethnic studies, literature and media
studies, and critical theory. Crossing Traditions will appeal to a
wide range of readers, including college and university professors,
undergraduate and graduate students, and music scholars in general.
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