Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana

by Ronald Radano, Josh Kun, Geoffrey Baker

Book Overview

In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaet n. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as "the music of the enemy," leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced certain cultural institutions to accept and then promote rap as part of Cuba's national culture. Culminating in the creation of the state-run Cuban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822349590
• ISBN13: 9780822349594
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 8.9"