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Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico

Contributor(s): Rivera-Rideau, Petra R (Author)

ISBN: 9780822359456

Publisher: Duke University Press

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Pub Date: October 2, 2015

Dewey: 781.64609729

LCCN: 2015008877

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.70" H x 9.30" L x 6.10" W ( 1.05 lbs) 240 pages

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Description: 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.

Review Quotes: "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"

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