Saunders, Tanya L.,

Cuban underground hip hop : black thoughts, black revolution, black modernity / Tanya L. Saunders. - First edition. - Austin : University of Texas Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations - Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation .

"Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Historicizing race, cultural politics, and critical music cultures in Cuba -- La revolución dentro de la revolución/The revolution within the revolution : hip hop, Cuba, and Afro-descendant challenges to coloniality -- Whiteness, mulattoness, blackness: racial identities and politics within the Cuban underground hip hop movement -- "Never has anyone spoken to you like this" : examining the lexicon of Cuban underground hip hop artivist discourses -- "I'm a feminist, but I don't hate men" : an analysis of emergent black feminist discourses and identity politics within the Cuban underground hip hop movement from 1998/2006 -- Kruda knowledge, Kruda discourse : Las Krudas Cubensi, transnational black feminism and the queer of color critique -- Conclusion : "They're killing hip hop! they're killing the movement!" : notes on the legacies of the Cuban underground hip hop movement.



9781477307717


Hip-hop--Cuba.
Music--Political aspects--Cuba.
Black people--Ethnic identity.--Cuba
Black people--Political activity--Cuba.
Racism--Cuba.


Electronic Books.

F1789 / .C833 2015