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Book SynopsisPetra 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.
Trade Review"
Remixing Reggaeton adroitly accomplishes the twin tasks of providing readers with a comprehensive chronological account of reggaeton’s development until the present, while at the same time placing its trajectory within the context of changing race relations and contested racial identities in Puerto Rico and beyond." -- Deborah Pacini Hernandez * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *
"In
Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau has created an insightful and engaging work of music scholarship that forms an important contribution to the literature on Caribbean and Latin American music." -- Gregory J. Robinson * Music Reference Services Quarterly *
"Petra R. Rivera-Rideau’s
Remixing Reggaetón presents an insightful reading of reggaetón as a discursive cultural practice inextricably linked to the experience of blackness in the African diaspora.... Well written and organized, and convincingly argued, her timely study resonates with and contributes significantly to current academic understandings of music, race, gender, sexuality, and nation, and their intersections within the context of the African diaspora." -- Francisco D. Lara * Notes *
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Remixing Reggaetón makes an extensive contribution to the literature on both Puerto Rican and African diaspora studies. . . . The book offers a refreshing take on the potentiality of cultural production to rewrite the narrative of
la gran familia puertorriqueña and generate more inclusive notions of Puerto Ricanness. In the end, Rivera-Rideau not only decenters whiteness in her work, but also foregrounds the messiness of Puerto Rican identities." -- Julie Torres * Latino Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Iintroduction. Reggaetón Takes Its Place 1
1. Iron Fist against Rap 21
2. The Perils of Perreo 52
3. Loíza 81
4. Fingernails con Feeling 104
5. Enter the Hurbans 130
Conclusion. Reggaetón’s Limits, Possibilities, and Futures 159
Notes 171
Bibliography 199
Index 215
