Reggaeton in Cuba: Censorship, Ostentation and Cracks in Media Policies
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https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2019.22.1.7Keywords:
Reggaeton, latin culture, popular music, performance, CubaAbstract
Reguetón en Cuba: censura, ostentación y grietas en las políticas mediáticas
Reggaeton em Cuba: censura, ostentação e fissuras nas políticas midiáticas
Building on the censorship of a videoclip in Cuban media systems, the controversies arising from the presence of reggaeton in Cuba are addressed in this paper. A musical genre that is strongly anchored in the Caribbean diasporas in the United States, reggaeton stages discussions on the construction of a notion of transnational, youthful and cosmopolitan Pan-Latinity, marked by consumption and ostentation, which seems to question the uniqueness of Cuba as a socialist nation in Latin America. The problem around the performance of the “successful man” who owns mansions and cars in a country whose economy is strongly mediated by the state emerges; conflicts with other Cuban musical genres are noted; and it is claimed that alternative unofficial forms of production and dissemination—which make global identity actions explicit—undermine national policies on “being Cuban.”
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Luci, S. y Soares, T. (2019). Reguetón en Cuba: censura, ostentación y grietas en las políticas mediáticas. Palabra Clave 22(1), e2217. DOI: 10.5294/pacla.2019.22.1.7
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