Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (556 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01569VHFG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 103 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaetón's origins and its transformation from the music of San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. From censorship campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaetón, to its subsequent mass marketing to U.S. In Remixing Reggaetón, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging. Reggaetón, she demonstrates, provides a language to speak about the black presence in Puerto Rico and a way to build links between the island and the African diaspora. . Stars such as Tego Calderón criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency t
"Petra R. Rivera-Rideau does an outstanding job explaining the contradictory power dynamics behind the representations of blackness in Puerto Rico. In exploring the ways in which racial identities get restructured, reorganized, and even elided through the music industry, Rivera-Rideau provides a significant contribution and a brilliant intervention into studies on race, blackness, and popular music in Puerto Rico."