World cities and world beat: Low-wage labor and transnational culture

Pacific Historical Review

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 213-228

  Lipsitz, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

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IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MUSIC; RACIAL IDENTITY; SOCIAL CHANGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0040366643     PISSN: 00308684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3641985     Document Type: Article

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1. Alex Stepick III and Guillermo Grenier, "Cubans in Miami; in Joan Moore and Raquel Pinderhughes, eds., In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate (New York, 1993), 81.
2. Ibid., 83.
3. Diane Lindquist, "Moving in on Miami's Trade," San Diego Union-Tribune, June 15, 1998, A1, A14.
4. Stuart A. Gabriel, "Remaking the Los Angeles Economy: Cyclical Fluctuations and Structural Evolution," in Michael J. Dear, H. Eric Schockman, and Greg Hise eds., Rethinking Los Angeles (Thousand Oaks, Calif., 1996), 28.
5. Julie Farrem, "Southland Drywall Hangers Hold Out in Hope of Nailing Down a Union," Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1992, B8; Michael Flagg, "Unions Get a Wake-Up Call as Drywallers Achieve an Unlikely Victory," ibid., D5.
6. Julie Farrem, "Southland Drywall Hangers Hold Out in Hope of Nailing Down a Union," Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1992, B8; Michael Flagg, "Unions Get a Wake-Up Call as Drywallers Achieve an Unlikely Victory," ibid., D5.
7. Patricia R. Pessar, A Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States (Boston, 1995), 22. Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton, and James Loucky, "Central Americans in Los Angeles: An Immigrant Community in Transition," in Moore and Pinderhughes, eds., In the Barrios, 53.
8. Patricia R. Pessar, A Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States (Boston, 1995), 22. Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton, and James Loucky, "Central Americans in Los Angeles: An Immigrant Community in Transition," in Moore and Pinderhughes, eds., In the Barrios, 53.
9. Peter Manual, Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae (Philadelphia, 1995), 241; Winston James, "Migration, Racism, Identity: The Caribbean Experience in Britain," New Left Review, No. 193 (1992), 36-37.
10. Peter Manual, Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae (Philadelphia, 1995), 241; Winston James, "Migration, Racism, Identity: The Caribbean Experience in Britain," New Left Review, No. 193 (1992), 36-37.
11. Lindquist, "Moving in on Miami's Trade," A1, A14; Marvin Dunn and Alex Stepick III, "Blacks in Miami, in Guillermo J. Grenier and Alex Stepick III, eds., Miami Now! Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Change (Gainesville, Fla., 1992), 49; Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick III, City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami (Berkeley, 1993), 176-202.
12. Lindquist, "Moving in on Miami's Trade," A1, A14; Marvin Dunn and Alex Stepick III, "Blacks in Miami, in Guillermo J. Grenier and Alex Stepick III, eds., Miami Now! Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Change (Gainesville, Fla., 1992), 49; Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick III, City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami (Berkeley, 1993), 176-202.
13. Lindquist, "Moving in on Miami's Trade," A1, A14; Marvin Dunn and Alex Stepick III, "Blacks in Miami, in Guillermo J. Grenier and Alex Stepick III, eds., Miami Now! Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Change (Gainesville, Fla., 1992), 49; Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick III, City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami (Berkeley, 1993), 176-202.
14. By "cultural franchise" I mean a sense of visibility in the larger culture and a sense of ownership and control over expressive forms that speak to immediate and local realities, histories, and aspirations.
15. Japanese investors control 30 percent of downtown office buildings in Los Angeles. The Pico-Union section has been a point of entry for many immigrant groups, including Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Filipinos, and other Asian, South American, and Central American groups. See Chinchilla, Hamilton, and Loucky, "Central Americans in Los Angeles," 53, 56.
16. For more about Lisa M, see the insightful discussions in Frances R. Aparicio, Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures (Hanover, N.H., 1998), 150, 160, 168-169.
17. Lydia Martin, "New Crew Cut Angers Latin Women's Groups Who Call It Offensive," Miami Herald, Aug. 3, 1990, p. 4B.
18. Ice-T (as told to Heidi Siegmund), The Ice Opinion (New York, 1994), 134.
19. See Andrew Ross, Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice (New York, 1998), 35-69.
20. D. Aileen Dodd, "Joseph Kolsky, 77, Pop Music Record Executive," Miami Herald, May 12, 1997, p. 4B.
21. Colin Larkin, ed., The Guinness Who's Who of Rap, Dance, and Techno (Middlesex, England, 1994), 22; Sharony Andrews, "'Uncensored Story' Nasty, But History Is Interesting," Miami Herald, Feb. 26, 1992, p. 3E; John D. McKinnon, "2 Live Crew Verdict Comes as No Surprise," Miami Herald, March 9, 1994, p. 5B.
22. Colin Larkin, ed., The Guinness Who's Who of Rap, Dance, and Techno (Middlesex, England, 1994), 22; Sharony Andrews, "'Uncensored Story' Nasty, But History Is Interesting," Miami Herald, Feb. 26, 1992, p. 3E; John D. McKinnon, "2 Live Crew Verdict Comes as No Surprise," Miami Herald, March 9, 1994, p. 5B.
23. Colin Larkin, ed., The Guinness Who's Who of Rap, Dance, and Techno (Middlesex, England, 1994), 22; Sharony Andrews, "'Uncensored Story' Nasty, But History Is Interesting," Miami Herald, Feb. 26, 1992, p. 3E; John D. McKinnon, "2 Live Crew Verdict Comes as No Surprise," Miami Herald, March 9, 1994, p. 5B.
24. Jack Thompson later brought the obscenity charges against 2 Live Crew to the attention of Republican Party sheriff of Broward County, Nick Navarro, and Republican Governor of Florida, Bob Martinez.
25. Louis Chude-Sokei, "Postnationalist Geographies: Rasta, Ragga, and Reinventing Africa," in Chris Potash, ed., Reggae, Rasta, Revolution: Jamaican Music From Ska to Dub (New York, 1997), 222.
26. Ibid.
27. Ross, Real Love, 55.
28. Yen Le Espiritu, Asian American Women and Men (Thousand Oaks, Calif., 1997), 8.
29. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Gendered Transition: Mexican Experiences in Immigration (Berkeley, 1994).
30. Ross, Real Love, 63.
31. Lynn Bolles, "Kitchens Hit by Priorities: Employed Working Class Jamaican Women Confront the IMF," in June Nash and Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, eds., Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor (Albany, N.Y., 1983), 138-160, quoted in Ross, Real Love, 220.
32. Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton, Reggae: The Rough Guide (London, 1997), 306.
33. Jacqui Alexander, "Not Just (Any)body Can Be a Citizen: The Politics of Law, Sexuality, and Postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas," Feminist Review, 48 (Autumn 1994), 5-23; Alexander, "Redrafting Morality: The Postcolonial State and the Sexual Offenses Bill of Trinidad and Tobago," in Chandra Talpede Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres, eds., Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Bloomington, Ind. 1991), 173-196.
34. Jacqui Alexander, "Not Just (Any)body Can Be a Citizen: The Politics of Law, Sexuality, and Postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas," Feminist Review, 48 (Autumn 1994), 5-23; Alexander, "Redrafting Morality: The Postcolonial State and the Sexual Offenses Bill of Trinidad and Tobago," in Chandra Talpede Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres, eds., Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Bloomington, Ind. 1991), 173-196.
35. Ross, Real Love, 66-67.
36. Jordan Levin, "Dancehall DJs in the House," in Potash, ed., Reggae, Rasta, Revolution, 228-230.
37. Ross, Real Love.
38. Chude-Sokei, "Postnationalist Geographies," 222.
39. For an excellent discussion of gender and sexuality in salsa music, see Aparicio, Listening to Salsa, 142-153.
40. Levin, "Dancehall DJs"; Ross, Real Love, 49.
41. Larkin, ed., The Guinness Who's Who of Rap, Dance, and Techno, 162.
42. Andrews, "Uncensored Story."
43. The city also enjoys an important relationship with the francophone Caribbean through the presence of large numbers of Haitian migrants, refugees, and exiles, as well as for the role played by local recording studios in producing the work of Haitian musical groups, especially Boukman Eksperyans.
44. Wendell Logan, "Conversation with Majorie Whylie," The Black Perspective in Music, 10 (1986), 86, 92. Caribbean connections were especially evident in the music made for Harry Stone's labels by K. C. and the Sunshine Band, Betty Wright, and L'il Beaver (among others).
45. I thank David Gutierrez for directing me toward this information. See also Alex Avila, "Trading Punches: Spanish Language Television Pounds the Competition in Fight for Hispanic Advertising Dollars," Hispanic (Jan./Feb. 1997), 39-42,
46. Maxine Waters, "Testimony Before Senate Banking Committee," in Don Hazen, ed., Inside the L.A. Riots (NewYork, 1992), 26.
47. Marc Cooper, "L.A.'s State of Siege," in Hazen, ed., Inside the L.A. Riots, 15.
48. . Larkin, The Guinness Who's Who of Rap, Dance, and Techno, 157.