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
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.
"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
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