Reggaeton

Reggaeton

  • Autor: Rivera, Raquel Z.; Marshall, Wayne; Hernandez, Deborah Pacini; Radano, Ronald; Kun, Josh; Flores, Juan
  • Editor: Duke University Press
  • Col·lecció: Refiguring American Music
  • ISBN: 9780822343608
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822392323
  • Lloc de publicació:  Durham , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2009
  • Mes: Abril
  • Pàgines: 392
  • DDC: 781.64
  • Idioma: Anglés
A hybrid of reggae and rap, reggaeton is a music with Spanish-language lyrics and Caribbean aesthetics that has taken Latin America, the United States, and the world by storm. Superstars—including Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Ivy Queen—garner international attention, while aspiring performers use digital technologies to create and circulate their own tracks. Reggaeton brings together critical assessments of this wildly popular genre. Journalists, scholars, and artists delve into reggaeton’s local roots and its transnational dissemination; they parse the genre’s aesthetics, particularly in relation to those of hip-hop; and they explore the debates about race, nation, gender, and sexuality generated by the music and its associated cultural practices, from dance to fashion.

The collection opens with an in-depth exploration of the social and sonic currents that coalesced into reggaeton in Puerto Rico during the 1990s. Contributors consider reggaeton in relation to that island, Panama, Jamaica, and New York; Cuban society, Miami’s hip-hop scene, and Dominican identity; and other genres including reggae en español, underground, and dancehall reggae. The reggaeton artist Tego Calderón provides a powerful indictment of racism in Latin America, while the hip-hop artist Welmo Romero Joseph discusses the development of reggaeton in Puerto Rico and his refusal to embrace the upstart genre. The collection features interviews with the DJ/rapper El General and the reggae performer Renato, as well as a translation of “Chamaco’s Corner,” the poem that served as the introduction to Daddy Yankee’s debut album. Among the volume’s striking images are photographs from Miguel Luciano’s series Pure Plantainum, a meditation on identity politics in the bling-bling era, and photos taken by the reggaeton videographer Kacho López during the making of the documentary Bling’d: Blood, Diamonds, and Hip-Hop.

Contributors. Geoff Baker, Tego Calderón, Carolina Caycedo, Jose Davila, Jan Fairley, Juan Flores, Gallego (José Raúl González), Félix Jiménez, Kacho López, Miguel Luciano, Wayne Marshall, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Alfredo Nieves Moreno, Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo, Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Raquel Z. Rivera, Welmo Romero Joseph, Christoph Twickel, Alexandra T. Vazquez

  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword: What's All the Noise About?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Reggaeton’s Socio-Sonic Circuitry
  • Part I. Mapping Reggaeton
    • From Música Negra to Reggaeton Latino: The Cultural Politics of Nation, Migration, and Commercialization
  • Part II. The Panamanian Connection
    • Placing Panama in the Reggaeton Narrative: Editor’s Notes
    • Reggae in Panama: Bien Tough
    • The Panamanian Origins of Reggae en Español: Seeing History through ‘‘Los Ojos Café’’ of Renato
    • Muévelo (Move It!): From Panama to New York and Back Again, the Story of El General
  • Part III. (Trans)Local Studies and Ethnographies
    • Policing Morality, Mano Dura Stylee: The Case of Underground Rap and Reggae in Puerto Rico in the Mid-1990s
    • Dominicans in the Mix: Reflections on Dominican Identity, Race, and Reggaeton
    • The Politics of Dancing: Reggaetón and Rap in Havana, Cuba
    • You Got Your Reggaetón in my Hip-Hop: Crunkiao and ‘‘Spanish Music’’ in the Miami Urban Scene
  • Part IV. Visualizing Reggaeton
    • Visualizing Reggaeton: Editors’ Notes
    • Images by Miguel Luciano
    • Images by Carolina Caycedo
    • Images by Kacho López
  • Part V. Gendering Reggaeton
    • (W)rapped in Foil: Glory at Twelve Words a Minute
    • A Man Lives Here: Reggaeton’s Hypermasculine Resident
    • How to Make Love with Your Clothes On: Dancing Regeton, Gender, and Sexuality in Cuba
  • Part VI. Reggaeton’s Poetics, Politics, and Aesthetics
    • Chamaco’s Corner
    • Salon Philosophers: Ivy Queen and Surprise Guests Take Reggaetón Aside
    • From Hip-Hop to Reggaeton: Is There Only a Step?
    • Black Pride
    • Poetry of Filth: The (Post) Reggaetonic Lyrics of Calle 13
  • Bibliography: Selected Sources for Reading Reggaeton
  • Contributors
  • Index