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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

On 'Sonic Affinities and Reggaeton Nationalism'

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Marisol LeBrón 's essay "'Con un Flow Natural': Sonic Affinities and Reggaeton Nationalism" was just published in the...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Os circuitos sócio-sônicos do reggaeton

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The introductory chapter to our anthology Reggaeton is now available in Portuguese (as well as Spanish ). Titled "Os circuitos sócio-...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Perreo & Power: Explicit Sexuality in Reggaeton Dance

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I've been meaning to keep working on this paper titled " Perreo & Power: Explicit Sexuality in Reggaeton Dance ". But I s...
Sunday, October 02, 2011

Is Reggaeton Dead? / ¿Muere el reguetón?

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As I mentioned in a 2009 post , folks have been pronouncing reggaeton dead, since before it was even called reggaeton. Here they go again , ...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Dembow Quisqueyano

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* Una serie de articulos recientes sobre la fiebre del dembow en Quisqueya publicada en el periodico El Caribe por Jose Nova y Rossy Diaz....
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Los circuitos socio-sónicos del reggaetón

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¡Por fin! TRANS: Revista Transcultural de Música acaba de publicar el artículo "Los circuitos socio-sónicos del reggaetón" que ...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Clips from Rap Sessions

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I found a few clips from our Rap Sessions tour of years past! How does reggaeton fit into a larger discussion of race and hip hop? On mascu...
Friday, August 20, 2010

My CD release party: 9-10 NYC

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My CD is not reggaeton or hip-hop, but it's urban in a roots kind of way. Check it. My Las 7 salves de La Magdalena / 7 Songs of Praise ...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Reggaeton Review in Dancecult Journal

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Check the review of Reggaeton (2009), the book I co-edited, in Dancecult: Journal of Eletronic Dance Music . Thanks to Alejandro Madrid f...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Lamentan que reguetón sustituyera a la bomba y la plena en la apertura de los Juegos

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Aquí el texto del artículo publicado ayer en www.meta.pr . Inter News Service Martes, 20 Julio 2010 El fundador del grupo Tepeu, Enrique Rí...
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Sunday, June 06, 2010

San Juditas Reggaetónico

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My co-editor and compi Wayne , just told me about the mini-documentary titled San Juditas... Power! . I'm fascinated by this connection...
Sunday, May 02, 2010

My interview on hiphopmacedonia.com

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Check my interview on www.hiphopmacedonia.com in English or Macedonian . I got a kick out of so many things about this interview. Here...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Reguetón en Ñ

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Pulse aquí para leer el artículo sobre reguetón que publicó el pasado viernes 2 de abril la Revista Ñ del periódico argentino Clarín . El ...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Liberation Mythologies: Art, Spirit & Justice

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What follows is the paper I presented on 3-19 at Duke University's symposium Dislocated Performances: Reimagining Latino Hip-Hop in the ...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Reimagining Latino Hip-Hop in the 21st Century

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Tomorrow I'll be speaking at the Dislocated Performances: Reimagining Latino Hip-Hop in the 21st Century symposium at Duke University o...
Monday, March 08, 2010

Reggaeton & Its "Radical Feminist Queer Sex Positive Potential"

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How did I miss this provocative post from 9/09 at the Post Pomo Nuyorican Homo blog?! Marisol LeBrón offers a short and insightful take o...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

New Muslim Cool: NYU Screening/Discussion

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Yet another angle on Puerto Rican / Latino experiences in hip hop! I was only able to catch part of the documentary when it aired on PBS, so...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Reggaeton's 'Hurban Renewal'

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Here's yet another example of why I'm a fan of ethnomusicologist/blogger/DJ (plus my dear compi and co-editor) Wayne Marshall . Chec...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

El reggaetón ya está en la academia pero [...]

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Me complazco en compartir un artículo reciente sobre nuestro libro Reggaeton . Lo escribió Eduardo Corrales para www.iblnews.com . Corrales ...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Nación reggaetón (Nueva Sociedad no. 223)

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La revista Nueva Sociedad de Argentina (no. 223) acaba de publicar el ensayo " Nación reggaetón " que co-escribí con Frances Negró...
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Raquel Z. Rivera
Author, researcher, and singer-songwriter. Visiting Scholar at the University of New Mexico's Sociology Department. Research interests: popular and folk music, Latino and Caribbean studies, reproductive justice. Author of New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and co-editor of the anthology Reggaeton (Duke University Press, 2009). Research consultant and co-author working with the fierce reproductive justice organization Young Women United. Debut CD as director of the Caribbean neo-roots band Ojos de Sofia titled Las 7 Salves de La Magdalena / 7 Songs of Praise for The Magdalene. Born and raised in Puerto Rico. Lived for many years in NYC. Living in Planet New Mexico. Contact: raquelzrivera@gmail.com. Click here for CV.
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