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Rapear una Cuba utópica

Autor: Alejandro Zamora Montes

Número de Páginas: 408

El Hip Hop cuenta con más de dos décadas de existencia dentro del panorama cultural en Cuba. Sin embargo, alrededor de este movimiento urbano se han establecido profundas batallas culturales, debido (entre otros factores) al carácter irreverente del mismo, ya que es impulsado mayoritariamente por el discurso crítico de jóvenes que provienen de los márgenes de la sociedad. A través de entrevistas realizadas a exponentes, activistas, dirigentes e intelectuales, Rapear una Cuba utópica intenta brindar un acercamiento a esa microhistoria -igual de significativa para entender los procesos identitarios y transnacionales de cualquier país-, conformada por sujetos populares.

Break and Flow

Autor: Charlie D. Hankin

Número de Páginas: 377

Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop’s US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class violence. Despite the geographic and linguistic borders that separate these artists, Charlie Hankin finds in their music and lyrics a common understanding of hip hop’s capacity to intervene in the public sphere and a shared poetics of neighborhood, nation, and transatlantic yearnings. Situated at the critical intersection of sound studies and Afro-diasporic poetics, Break and Flow draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork and collaboration, as well as an archive of hundreds of songs by more than sixty hip hop artists. Hankin illuminates how new media is used to produce and distribute knowledge in the Global South, refining our understanding of poetry and popular music at the turn of the millennium.

Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean

Autor: Jana Evans Braziel

Número de Páginas: 255

Foregrounding street art in the capital cities of Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, this book argues that Antillean street artists diagnose the “impossible state” of the arrested present (colonized, occupied, or under dictatorship) while simultaneously imagining liberated futures and fully sovereign states. Jana Evans Braziel launches a comparative study of art, politics, history, urban street cultures, engaged citizenships, and social transformations in three Antillean capital cities—Havana, Cuba; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and San Juan, Puerto Rico—of the Greater Caribbean. The book includes a photo documentary archive of street art, murals, and installations by key muralists in these cities: Yulier Rodriguez Pérez, "Jerry" Rosembert Moïse, and Colectivo Moriviví (Chachi González Colón, Raysa Rodríguez García, and Salomé Cortés). Braziel offers art historical and geopolitical analyses of the urban street art in their cities of production, underscoring street art as political, economic, and environmental engagements (and not as exclusively aesthetic ones) with urban space and street life. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Caribbean studies, ...