List of Illustrations vii
Foreword: What's all the noise about? / Juan Flores ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Reggaeton's Socio-Sonic Circuitry / Wayne Marshall,
Raquel Z. Rivera, and Deborah Pacini Hernandez 1
Part I. Mapping Reggaeton
From Música Negra to Reggaeton Latino: The Cultural Politics of
Nation, Migration, and Commercialization / Wayne Marshall 19
Part II. The Panamanian Connection
Placing Panama in the Reggaeton Narrative: Editor's Notes / Wayne
Marshall 77
Reggae in Panama: Bien Tough / Christoph Twickel 81
The Panamanian Origins of Reggae in Español: Seeing History through
"Los Ojos Café" of Renato / Interview by Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo
89
Muévelo (Move It!): From Panama to New York and Back Again, the
Story of El General / Interview by Christoph Twickel 99
Part III. (Trans)Local Studies and Ethnographies
Policing Morality, Mano Dura Stylee: The Case of Underground Rap
and Reggae in Puerto Rico in the Mid-1990s / Raquel Z. Rivera
111
Dominicans in the Mix: Reflections on Dominican Identity, Race, and
Reggaeton / Deborah Pacini Hernandezq 135
The Politics of Dancing: Reggaetón and Rap in Havana / Geoff Baker
165
You Got Your Reggaetón in my Hip-Hop: Crunkiao and "Spanish Music"
in the Miami Urban Scene / Jose Davila 200
Part IV. Visualizing Reggaeton
Visualizing Reggaeton: Editors' Notes / Wayne Marshall and Raquel
Z. Rivera 215
Images by Miguel Luciano 218
Images by Carolina Caycedo 221
Images by Kacho López 222
Part V. Gendering Reggaeton
(W)rapped in Foil: Glory at Twelve Words a Minute / Félix Jiménez
229
A Man Lives Here: Reggaeton's Hypermasculine Resident / Alfredo
Nieves Moreno 252
How to Make Love with Your Clothes On: Dancing Regeton, Gender, and
Sexuality in Cuba / Jan Fairley 280
Part VI. Reggaeton's Poetics, Politics, and Aesthetics
Chamaco's Corner / Gallego (José Raúl González) 297
Salon Philosophers: Ivy Queen and Surprise Guests Take Reggaetón
Aside / Alexandra T. Vazquez 300
From Hip-Hop to Reggaeton: Is There Only a Step? / Welmo Romero
Joseph 312
Black Pride / Tego Calderón 324
Poetry of Filth: The (Post) Reggaetonic Lyrics of Calle 13 /
Frances Negrón-Muntaner 327
Bibliography: Selected Sources for Reading Reggaeton 341
Index 345
The first critical assessment of the music and culture of reggaeton, a popular genre that blends reggae and rap, Spanish-language lyrics, and Latin-Caribbean aesthetics
Raquel Z. Rivera is a Researcher at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is the author of New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone and many articles for magazines and newspapers including Vibe, Urban Latino, El Diario/La Prensa, El Nuevo Día, and Claridad. She blogs at reggaetonica.blogspot.com.
Wayne Marshall is the Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ethnomusicology at Brandeis University. He blogs at wayneandwax.com, from which a post on reggaeton was selected for the Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006 anthology.
Deborah Pacini Hernandez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University. The author of Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music and a co-editor of Rockin’ Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America, she has written many articles on Spanish Caribbean and U.S. Latino popular music.
"I cannot overstate how critically important this volume is. It captures the synergies of a musical and cultural movement that few have seriously grappled with, even as the sounds and styles of reggaeton have dominated the air space of so many urban locales." Mark Anthony Neal, author of Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic "This anthology introduces a chapter in hip hop history that brings it all back home, back to our transnational Afro-Spanish-speaking countries and diasporas and 'hoods where young people are going through their hip-hop ecstasies and traumas, but in their own language and in their own unique and hitherto unknown style." Juan Flores, author of From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, from the preface to Reggaeton "The kinetic contributions in Reggaeton melt false borders--ones wrapped like straitjackets around peoples, knowledges, and cultures--and move the crowd. More than an exciting, exhaustive treatment of this vital musical culture, this anthology is a fine blueprint for engaged cultural scholarship right now."--Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation "It's about time academia dared to include reggaeton. This might mean that we're finally understanding that all of us are los de atras (the ones behind): our country, Puerto Rico, and the whole Caribbean. I hope people support this book so it can be translated into Spanish, and kids in Puerto Rico and Latin America can read it. Because we Caribbean people, even if we don't want to, even if we don't like it, even if it hurts, we come from behind ... and there's a value to that. There's a beauty to being los de atras."--Residente, frontman of the Grammy and Latin Grammy award-winning duo Calle 13 "Reggaton, a rump-shaking Latino take on dancehall and hiphop...This collection of essays is the first attempt to critically engage with the phenomenon, and wisely hedges its bets with a broad collection of writings - earnest academic appraisals are affectively offset by punchy location reportage from Latin America, Q & As with major protagonists and landmark magazine pieces from the music's early days...it's a largely informative and sometimes exhilarating survey of a multinational phenomenon." - Derek Walmsley, The Wire, May 2009
"I cannot overstate how critically important this volume is. It captures the synergies of a musical and cultural movement that few have seriously grappled with, even as the sounds and styles of reggaeton have dominated the air space of so many urban locales." Mark Anthony Neal, author of Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic "This anthology introduces a chapter in hip hop history that brings it all back home, back to our transnational Afro-Spanish-speaking countries and diasporas and 'hoods where young people are going through their hip-hop ecstasies and traumas, but in their own language and in their own unique and hitherto unknown style." Juan Flores, author of From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, from the preface to Reggaeton "The kinetic contributions in Reggaeton melt false borders--ones wrapped like straitjackets around peoples, knowledges, and cultures--and move the crowd. More than an exciting, exhaustive treatment of this vital musical culture, this anthology is a fine blueprint for engaged cultural scholarship right now."--Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation "It's about time academia dared to include reggaeton. This might mean that we're finally understanding that all of us are los de atras (the ones behind): our country, Puerto Rico, and the whole Caribbean. I hope people support this book so it can be translated into Spanish, and kids in Puerto Rico and Latin America can read it. Because we Caribbean people, even if we don't want to, even if we don't like it, even if it hurts, we come from behind ... and there's a value to that. There's a beauty to being los de atras."--Residente, frontman of the Grammy and Latin Grammy award-winning duo Calle 13 "Reggaton, a rump-shaking Latino take on dancehall and hiphop...This collection of essays is the first attempt to critically engage with the phenomenon, and wisely hedges its bets with a broad collection of writings - earnest academic appraisals are affectively offset by punchy location reportage from Latin America, Q & As with major protagonists and landmark magazine pieces from the music's early days...it's a largely informative and sometimes exhilarating survey of a multinational phenomenon." - Derek Walmsley, The Wire, May 2009
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