{"id":43899,"date":"2015-11-12T02:51:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T02:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43899"},"modified":"2015-11-12T04:23:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T04:23:55","slug":"more-than-just-party-music-new-book-remixing-reggaeton-mines-the-complicated-racial-politics-of-the-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43899","title":{"rendered":"More Than Just Party Music: New Book \u2018Remixing Reggaet\u00f3n\u2019 Mines the Complicated Racial Politics of the Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Than Just Party Music: New Book \u2018Remixing Reggaet\u00f3n\u2019 Mines the Complicated Racial Politics of the Genre<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Remezcla<\/a>
\n2015-10-21<\/p>\n

Walter Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong><\/a>
\nLos Angeles, California<\/em><\/p>\n

For centuries, the complexities of racism in Latin America<\/a> have been overshadowed by the false perception that high rates of racial mixture have created a racially democratic<\/a> Latin American society. In her new book, Remixing Reggaet\u00f3n: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico<\/em><\/a>, scholar Petra Rivera-Rideau<\/a> challenges this idea through the prism of a genre of urban music that gained momentum in impoverished neighborhoods on the island and ultimately became a global pop phenomenon.Read the entire article here.<\/p>\n

Positing that reggaet\u00f3n<\/a> challenges the racial democracy myth, Remixing Reggaet\u00f3n<\/em> focuses on leading Puerto Rican<\/a> artists like Tego Calderon <\/a>and Ivy Queen<\/a>, who are shifting traditional views on gender, sexuality, and race through provocative, unapologetic performances. Using a historical and contemporary analysis, Rivera-Rideau situates the music against the backdrop of Puerto Rico\u2019s legacy of anti-black racism, looking at how reggaet\u00f3n both jump-starts the party and raises critical awareness.<\/p>\n

We caught up with Rivera-Rideau to learn more about the motivations for her project, and how a sound popping off in the club is providing us with a language to talk about Afro-Latinidad<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More Than Just Party Music: New Book \u2018Remixing Reggaet\u00f3n\u2019 Mines the Complicated Racial Politics of the Genre Remezcla 2015-10-21 Walter Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez Los Angeles, California For centuries, the complexities of racism in Latin America have been overshadowed by the false perception that high rates of racial mixture have created a racially democratic Latin American society. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,1196,8,20],"tags":[1392,21083,21084,2654,21085,19464,18064],"class_list":["post-43899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-music","tag-petra-r-rivera-rideau","tag-petra-rivera-rideau","tag-puerto-rico","tag-reggaeton","tag-remezcla","tag-walter-thompson-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43912,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43899\/revisions\/43912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}