The genre’s foregrounding of rhythm sets it up to inherit prejudices that can be traced back to colonial Cuba. The spiritual and cultural practices brought to the island by enslaved Africans, as well as those that were formed in the new context, harnessed the communicative and cathartic power of rhythm, and became associated with rebellion – provoking fears of a second Haiti among the landowning white criollos
Link to Ema Dossier Index by Ellen Bishell* For a scholar of music video, to give a short take on Pablo Larraín’s Ema (2019) is…
Link to Ema Dossier Index by Laura Hatry* It’s not likely that Pablo Larraín could have imagined the extent to which Ema would anticipate real-world…
Link to Ema Dossier Index By *Philippa Page, Newcastle University Valparaíso, / qué disparate / eres, / qué loco, / puerto loco, / qué cabeza…
Link to Ema Dossier Index By Rachel Randall* Ever since watching Ema (Pablo Larraín, 2019) and Divino Amor [Divine Love](Gabriel Mascaro, 2019) for the first…
Link to Ema Dossier Index By Paul Merchant* Towards the end of Ema, the eponymous protagonist is asked to draw a picture of a house…
Today at Mediático we are delighted to publish an extensive and much-needed special dossier on Pablo Larraín’s Ema (2019), guest edited by Dunja Fehimović, that…