| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Refiguring American music |
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Refiguring American music.
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| Contents |
Raced neoliberalism : groundings for hip hop -- Hip hop Cubano : an emergent site of Black life -- New revolutionary horizons -- Critical self-fashionings and their gendering -- Racial challenges and the state -- Whither hip hop Cubano? |
| Summary |
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba's hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island's ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship, along with calls for racial justice, at the fraught confluence of growing Afro-Cuban marginalization and long held perceptions of Cuba as a non-racial nation. Situating hip hop within a long history of Cuban racial politics, Perry discusses the artistic and cultural exchanges between raperos and North American rappers and activists, and their relationships with older Afro-Cuban intellectuals and African American political exiles. He also examines critiques of Cuban patriarchy by female raperos, the competing rise of reggaetón, as well as state efforts to incorporate hip hop into its cultural institutions. At this pivotal moment of Cuban-U.S. relations, Perry's analysis illuminates the evolving dynamics of race, agency, and neoliberal transformation amid a Cuba in historic flux. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched |
| Analysis |
Anthropology |
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Blacks |
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Cuba |
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Hip-hop |
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Music |
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Political aspects |
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Social conditions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index |
| Notes |
Knowledge Unlatched |
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English |
| Subject |
Black people -- Cuba -- Social conditions
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Hip-hop -- Political aspects -- Cuba
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Anthropology.
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Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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Black people -- Social conditions
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Race relations
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| SUBJECT |
Cuba -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97004083
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| Subject |
Cuba
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822374954 |
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0822374951 |
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