Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique
Ronald Radano is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music.
Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics.
Ronald Radano is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music.
Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics.
Currents of Revolutionary Confluence: A View from Cuba’s Hip Hop Festival
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Published:January 2016
This essay offers an ethnographic entrée into Havana’s annual Hip Hop Festival as a site of overlapping and, at times, asymmetrical articulations of revolutionary internationalism at the millennial turn. The performative terrain of Cuban hip hop, Perry argues, offers a dynamic space in which to explore evolving dimensions of race, neoliberalism, and state interests in Cuba and their artistic mediation by young Cubans, while illuminating broader transnational fields—and potential limitations—of identity, music making, and liberatory envisioned political futures.
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