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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 <i>Remixing Reggaetón</i>, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy&apos;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&apos;s tendency to praise black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the island&apos;s black population, while Ivy Queen, the genre&apos;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&apos;s origins and its transformation from the music of San Juan&apos;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. 

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Release Date
Sep 17, 2015
Authors
Rivera-Rideau, Petra R.
Edition
Illustrated
Formats
Kindle eBook
Label
Duke University Press Books
Content Languages
[object Object]
Number Of Pages
240
Publication Date
2015-09-17
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Studio
Duke University Press Books
Lang
en-US

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