Geoffrey Baker

Buena Vista in the Club

Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana

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Produktbeschreibung

Geoffrey Baker is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco, also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349594
• ISBN-10: 0822349590
• Artikelnr.: 32469673

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Baker is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. ¡Hip Hop, Revolución!: Nationalizing Rap in Cuba 33
2. The Revolution of the Body: Reggaetón and the Politics of Dancing 108
3. The Havana You Don't Know: Urban Music and the Late Socialist City 178
4. Cuban Hip Hop All Stars: Transnationalism and the Politics of
Representation 244
Conclusion. The Rise and Fall of Havana Hip Hop 334
Notes 365
Bibliography 383
Index 401