Negro soy yo : hip hop and raced citizenship in neoliberal Cuba / Marc D. Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Marc D., 1967- author.

Series:

Refiguring American music.

Refiguring American music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hip-hop--Political aspects--Cuba.

Hip-hop.

Black people--Cuba--Social conditions.

Black people.

Cuba--Race relations.

Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Durham Duke University Press 2016

Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centring on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship, along with calls for racial justice, at the fraught confluence of growing Afro-Cuban marginalization and long held perceptions of Cuba as a non-racial nation. Situating hip hop within a long history of Cuban racial politics, Perry discusses the artistic and cultural exchanges between raperos and North American rappers and activists, and their relationships with older Afro-Cuban intellectuals and African American political exiles. He also examines critiques of Cuban patriarchy by female raperos, the competing rise of reggaetón, as well as state efforts to incorporate hip hop into its cultural institutions. At this pivotal moment of Cuban-U.S. relations, Perry's analysis illuminates the evolving dynamics of race, agency, and neoliberal transformation amid a Cuba in historic flux.

Contents:

Raced neoliberalism : groundings for hip hop

Hip hop Cubano : an emergent site of Black life

New revolutionary horizons

Critical self-fashionings and their gendering

Racial challenges and the state

Whither hip hop Cubano?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9780822374954

0822374951

OCLC:

933516936

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access