Remixing Reggaetón
The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico
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2015
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5945-6 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5945-6 (ISBN)
Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how the popular music style reggaetón offers a space for Puerto Rican musicians to express identities that center blackness, forge links across the African diaspora, and critique the popular Puerto Rican discourse of racial democracy, which conceals racism and marginalizes black Puerto Ricans.
Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. 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. Stars such as Tego Calderón criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency to praise black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the island's black population, while Ivy Queen, the genre's most visible woman, disrupts the associations between whiteness and respectability that support official discourses of racial democracy. From censorship campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaetón, to its subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaetón's origins and its transformation from the music of San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. 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.
Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. 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. Stars such as Tego Calderón criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency to praise black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the island's black population, while Ivy Queen, the genre's most visible woman, disrupts the associations between whiteness and respectability that support official discourses of racial democracy. From censorship campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaetón, to its subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaetón's origins and its transformation from the music of San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. 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.
Petra R. Rivera-Rideau is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Virginia Tech.
Acknowledgments ix
Iintroduction. Reggaetón Takes Its Place 1
1. Iron Fist against Rap 21
2. The Perils of Perreo 52
3. Loíza 81
4. Fingernails con Feeling 104
5. Enter the Hurbans 130
Conclusion. Reggaetón’s Limits, Possibilities, and Futures 159
Notes 171
Bibliography 199
Index 215
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.10.2015 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 11 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 476 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-5945-6 / 0822359456 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-5945-6 / 9780822359456 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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