Crossing Traditions
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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.

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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.
Autorenporträt
Babacar M'Baye is an associate professor of American and Pan-African cultures and literatures at Kent State University. He has published numerous articles and chapters on the relationships between African-American and African cultures and literatures. He is the author of The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives (2009). Alexander Charles Oliver Hall is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at Kent State University. He has published several essays in the field of utopian studies, which have appeared in the Journal of Technology Studies, Meridian Critic, and Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture.