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Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana (Refiguring American Music)

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In Buena Vista within the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the current and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. Even as Cuban officials to start with rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures within the hip hop scene soon convinced certain cultural institutions to accept after which promote rap as a part of Cuba’s national culture. Culminating within the creation of the state-run Cuban Rap Agency, this process of “nationalization” drew at the shared ideological roots of hip hop and the Cuban nation and the historical connections between Cubans and African Americans. On the same time, young Havana rappers used hip hop, the music of urban inequality par excellence, to critique the rapid changes occurring in Havana because the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union fell, its subsidy of Cuba ceased, and a tourism-based economy emerged. Baker considers the explosion of reggaetón within the early 2000s as a reflection of the “new materialism” that accompanied the influx of foreign consumer goods and cultural priorities into “sociocapitalist” Havana. Exploring the transnational dimensions of Cuba’s urban music, he examines how foreigners supported and documented Havana’s growing hip hop scene starting within the late 1990s and represented it in print and on film and CD. He argues that the discursive framing of Cuban rap played a the most important part in its success.

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