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Mediático features studies of Latin(o/a/x) American, Spanish & Portuguese film/media cultures. It is co-edited by Dolores Tierney & Catherine Grant.

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Ema in Havana: Reacting to Reggaeton

Ema in Havana: Reacting to Reggaeton

November 19, 2022
dtierney
Film, music

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

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