Reggaeton - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822343835 ISBN 13 : 9780822343837

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Rivera Raquel Z

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"I cannot overstate how critically important this volume is. It captures the synergies of a musical and cultural movement that few have seriously grappled with, even as the sounds and styles of reggaeton have dominated the air space of so many urban locales." Mark Anthony Neal, author of Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic "This anthology introduces a chapter in hip hop history that brings it all back home, back to our transnational Afro-Spanish-speaking countries and diasporas and 'hoods where young people are going through their hip-hop ecstasies and traumas, but in their own language and in their own unique and hitherto unknown style." Juan Flores, author of From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, from the preface to Reggaeton "The kinetic contributions in Reggaeton melt false borders--ones wrapped like straitjackets around peoples, knowledges, and cultures--and move the crowd. More than an exciting, exhaustive treatment of this vital musical culture, this anthology is a fine blueprint for engaged cultural scholarship right now."--Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation "It's about time academia dared to include reggaeton. This might mean that we're finally understanding that all of us are los de atras (the ones behind): our country, Puerto Rico, and the whole Caribbean. I hope people support this book so it can be translated into Spanish, and kids in Puerto Rico and Latin America can read it. Because we Caribbean people, even if we don't want to, even if we don't like it, even if it hurts, we come from behind ... and there's a value to that. There's a beauty to being los de atras." --Residente, frontman of the Grammy and Latin Grammy award-winning duo Calle 13

Reggaton, a rump-shaking Latino take on dancehall and hiphop...This collection of essays is the first attempt to critically engage with the phenomenon, and wisely hedges its bets with a broad collection of writings earnest academic appraisals are affectively offset by punchy location reportage from Latin America, Q&As with major protagonists and landmark magazine pieces from the music s early days...it s a largely informative and sometimes exhilarating survey of a multinational phenomenon. --Derek Walmsley, The Wire, May 2009

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A hybrid of reggae and rap, reggaeton is a music with Spanish-language lyrics and Latin-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" is the first critical assessment 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 as they differ from 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 espanol, underground, and dancehall reggae. The reggaeton artist Tego Calderon 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 Lopez during the making of the documentary "Bling'd: Blood, Diamonds, and Hip-Hop".

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0822343835
• ISBN 13: 9780822343837
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 386