Sound Tracks is the first comprehensive book on the new geography of popular music, examining the complex links between places, music and cultural identities. I

National symbols, modern totems with ancient roots, remain entities for which men and women continue to march, debate, fight, and die. Modern political leaders

Maps the musical Caribbeanization of New York City, now home to the diverse concentrations of Caribbean people in the world. This volume surveys a mosaic of pop

Music narrates personal, communal and national experiences. It is a rich repository of a people’s deepest fears, hopes, and achievements, especially as it com

An integrated overview of hearing and the interplay of physical, biological, and psychological processes underlying it.