Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana
(Part of the Refiguring American Music Series and Refiguring American Music Series)
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In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaet n. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as "the music of the enemy," leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced certain cultural institutions to accept and then promote rap as part of Cuba's national culture. Culminating in the creation of the state-run Cuban...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822349590
ISBN13:9780822349594
Release Date:April 2011
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:424 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 8.9"
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