“Aquí mataron gente por sacar la bandera / Por eso es que ahora yo la llevo donde quiera." (Here they killed people for taking out the flag / that’s why I bring it anywhere I want now.)—LA MuDANZA
Global superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, like many other Puerto Ricans, has lived a life marked by public crises—blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption and oppression, among others—that have exposed the ongoing impacts of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Offering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, P FKN R draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in a historical, political, and cultural context. Authors Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau—creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus”—demonstrate Bad Bunny’s place in a long tradition of infusing both joy and protest into music and honor the many evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life.
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- Introduction. “¿Quién Tú Eres?”: Understanding Bad Bunny and Resistance in Puerto Rico
- 1. Las Cosas Están Empeorando: Puerto Rico in the Era of “Soy Peor"
- 2. ¿“Estamos Bien”? Hurricane María and Unnatural Disaster in Puerto Rico
- 3. “El Pueblo No Aguanta Más Injusticia”: Bad Bunny and el Verano Boricua
- 4. “¿Por Qué No Puedo Ser Así?”: Bad Bunny and Gender Politics
- 5. “El Mundo es Mío”: Bad Bunny Beyond el Borinquen
- 6. “Puerto Rico Está Bien Cabrón”: The Party Is the Protest
- 7. Singing in Non-English: Bad Bunny Lost in Translation
- 8. “Nunca Antes Hubo Uno Como Yo”: Bad Bunny, Coachella, and Latino Belonging in the United States
- 9. “Prende una Velita”: Continued Hope, Continued Resistance
- Conclusion. “Seguimos Aquí”
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Discography
- Bibliography
- Index
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