Remixing Reggaetón : The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico /

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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 ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rivera-Rideau, Petra R., 1980-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Popular music > Puerto Rico > History and criticism.
Reggaetón > History and criticism.
Reggaetón.
Race relations.
Reggaeton > Histoire et critique.
Black people > Puerto Rico.
Popular music > Social aspects > Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico > Race relations.
Puerto Rico.
Porto Rico > Relations raciales.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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