In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba's hip hop movement as a window into the
racial complexities of the island's ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free …

El de la mujer es mucho más fuerte y más difícil de poder combatir. No siempre se le exige
al hombre el ser bello.... Entonces, la mujer por ejemplo, arrastra todo ese sentido de la …

The terms underground, alternative and commercial are widely used in discussions of
popular music scenes in Havana and around the world. In Cuba, the words alternative and …

On 4 February 1992, a Venezuelan colonel called Hugo Chávez, together with other officers
from a movement that had formed within the military, led an unsuccessful coup attempt …

This chapter analyses the 2019 music video,'Sinca Misa', by queer feminist hip-hop duo,
Krudxs Cubensi, which provides an innovative example of both the dynamic activism that …

Celiany Rivera-Velazquez is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Communications Re search
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Originally from Puerto Rico, her …

During the Chávez period, Alí Primera's songs were officially represented as the epitome of
Bolivarian thought. However, these songs were not written for or about the Chávez …

The present thesis analyzes the role of homosexuality in Cuba s society and compares it to
that in Jamaica s. The focus will be on the present-day legal situation and its development …

Hiphop har vokst fra å være en lokal gatekultur blant marginalisert ungdom i New York på
1970-tallet til å bli et kommersielt, populærkulturelt og globalt fenomen nesten 50 år senere …

Abstract 'Alí Primera es el alma nacional'('Alí Primera is the national soul'), answered
President Hugo Chávez when, after an official speech he gave in London in May 2006, I had …