P Fkn R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

By Vanessa Diaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

"Aqu mataron gente por sacar la bandera / Por eso es que ahora yo la llevo donde quiera." (Here they killed people for taking out the flag / that's why I bring it anywhere I want now.)--LA MuDANZA

Global superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Mart nez Ocasio, like many other Puerto Ricans, has lived a life marked by public crises--blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption and oppression, among others--that have exposed the ongoing impacts of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Offering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, P FKN R draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in an historical, political, and cultural context. Authors Vanessa D az and Petra Rivera-Rideau--creators of the "Bad Bunny Syllabus"--demonstrate Bad Bunny's place in a long tradition of infusing joy and protest into music and honor the many, evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478029889
• ISBN13: 9781478029885
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.