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Raquel Z. Rivera began writing about reggaeton in 1994—before the genre was widely known as such—in the pages of Claridad, Dialogo and The San Juan Star in Puerto Rico. From 1996-2001, she was the New York correspondent for In the House Magazine, the first magazine to cover the local rap and reggae scene in Puerto Rico. She authored some of the first articles on reggaeton that appeared in the United States in Vibe, Urban Latino and Hoy. She has now teamed up with Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Wayne Marshall to co-edit the book entitled Reading Reggaeton: Historical, Aesthetic and Critical Perspectives.
Reading
Reggaeton: Historical, Aesthetic and Critical
Perspectives
An anthology of scholarly
articles, critical essays, interviews and creative
writings on reggaeton
An anthology of scholarly articles, critical essays, interviews and creative writings on reggaeton
Edited by Raquel Z. Rivera,
Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Wayne Marshall
(Publisher and publication date will soon be announced)
 While reggaeton has received a great deal of attention in the media, it has yet to receive scholarly attention commensurate with its musical and cultural importance. Reading Reggaeton will be the first book devoted to the subject.
The material in this anthology will examine reggaeton’s history, musical aesthetics, discourses and images, dance, technology, as well as issues such as migration and media globalization, from the multiple perspectives of production, dissemination, consumption and performance. Analyzing the implications of reggaeton’s current location within transnational communities, global capitalism, and the discourses and practices of intersecting and competing identities, this anthology provides a crucial contribution to contemporary studies of culture and society.
PRELIMINARY TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Views from the 90s: Emerging Perspectives
Policing Morality, Mano Dura Stylee: The Case of Underground Rap and Reggae in Puerto Rico, Raquel Z. Rivera
Popular Music and Culture in Puerto Rico: Jamaican and Rap Music as Cross-Cultural Symbols, Jorge L. Giovannetti
- Race, Nation and Ethnicity in Reggaeton
Remixing and Reshaping Latin@s on Black Entertainment Television, Ejima Baker
Are Dominicans in the Mix?: Reflections on Dominicans and Reggaeton, Deborah Pacini Hernández
- Gendering Reggaeton
Dancing Back to Front: Reggaeton, Sexuality, and Gender in Cuba, Jan Fairley
Wrapped in Foil: Glory at 12 Words a Minute, Felix Jimenez
A Man Lives Here: Reggaeton’s Hypermasculine Resident, Alfredo Nieves Moreno
- (Trans)Local Studies and Ethnographies
The Politics of Dancing: Reggaeton and Rap in Havana, Geoff Baker
Reggaeton and the Miami Urban Scene, Jose Davila
From the Disco to the Projects: Urban Spatial Aesthetics and Policy to the Beat of Reggaeton, Zaire Dinzey-Flores
- Musical Aesthetics
Quitate Tu (Our Latin Thing): Reggaeton as a Cross-Generational Phenomenon, David Lizardi
Poco Man Jam: Sampling Reggaeton's Socio-Sonic Circuitry, Wayne Marshall
From Hip Hop to Reggaeton, Is There Only a Step?, Welmo
- Visual Readings
El Perreton, Carolyna Caycedo
Pure Plantainum, Miguel Luciano
Image Gallery, Luis Alcala del Olmo
THE EDITORS
Raquel Z. Rivera is the author of New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone and Research Fellow at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College.
Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Latino Studies Program at Tufts University, is co-editor of Rockin’ Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America and author of Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music.
Wayne Marshall, Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, has published articles and reviews in Popular Music, Interventions, and The World of Music. His blog has been featured in the Village Voice education supplement; one of his posts on reggaeton, “we use so many snares,” has been selected for the DaCapo Best Music Writing 2006 anthology.
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