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Remixing Reggaeton - The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico (Paperback)
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Remixing Reggaeton - The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico (Paperback)
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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 Reggaeton, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaeton
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
Calderon 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 reggaeton, to its
subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau
traces reggaeton's origins and its transformation from the music of
San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. Reggaeton, 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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