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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 espa¤ol, underground, and dancehall reggae. The reggaeton artist Tego Calder¢n 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 L¢pez during the making of the documentary Bling’d: Blood, Diamonds, and Hip-Hop.

Contributors. Geoff Baker, Tego Calder¢n, Carolina Caycedo, Jose Davila, Jan Fairley, Juan Flores, Gallego (Jos‚ Ra£l Gonz lez), F‚lix Jim‚nez, Kacho L¢pez, Miguel Luciano, Wayne Marshall, Frances Negr¢n-Muntaner, Alfredo Nieves Moreno, Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo, Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Raquel Z. Rivera, Welmo Romero Joseph, Christoph Twickel, Alexandra T. Vazquez

"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

List of Illustrations
Foreword: What's all the noise about?
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reggaeton's Socio-Sonic Circuitry
Mapping Reggaeton
From Música Negra to Reggaeton Latino: The Cultural Politics of Nation, Migration, and Commercialization
The Panamanian Connection
Placing Panama in the Reggaeton Narrative: Editor's Notes
Reggae in Panama: Bien Tough
The Panamanian Origins of Reggae in 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
(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
You Got Your Reggaetón in my Hip-Hop: Crunkiao and "Spanish Music" in the Miami Urban Scene
Visualizing Reggaeton
Visualizing Reggaeton: Editors' Notes
Images
Images
Images
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
Reggaeton's Poetics, Politics, and Aesthetics
Chamaco's Corner / Gallego
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
Index
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ISBN: 9780822343608
ISBN-10: 0822343606
Series: Refiguring American Music
Audience: General
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Published: 1st June 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Dimensions (cm): 23.6 x 16.5  x 3.3
Weight (kg): 0.798