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Author Rivera-Rideau, Petra R., 1980- author

Title Remixing reggaetón : the cultural politics of race in Puerto Rico / Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: reggaetón takes its place -- Iron fist against rap -- The perils of perreo -- Loíza -- Fingernails con feeling -- Enter the Hurbans -- Conclusion: reggaetón's limits, possibilities, and futures
Summary 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
Analysis reggae reggaeton musikkhistorie raserelasjoner kulturpolitikk
Puerto Rico
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index
Notes English
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Subject Reggaetón -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Race relations.
Reggaetón.
Reggaetón -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- Puerto Rico -- History and criticism.
SUBJECT Puerto Rico -- Race relations
Subject Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico -- Race relations.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822375258
0822375257