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In this paper, I discuss how African-derived music genres of Puerto Rican music tradition can be integrated to the music classroom. I analyze the historical and social impact resultant from the great influence of African rhythms in Puerto Rican culture.
Abstract. Susan Homar has been paying keen attention to experimental dance in Puerto Rico since the group Pisotón's pioneering work in the late 1970s. She illuminates how the most significant choreographers developed innovative ways to explore themes reflecting the ironies and dissonances of identity and gender in contemporary Puerto Rico.
As is evident in the current issue, salsa stands as a watershed, a cultural turning point, and as a powerful signifier in the story of Puerto Rican and Caribbean diaspora music and dance. While drawing together the varied styles and cultural movements expressive of Puerto Rican life in the diaspora, the musical revolution
Book Reviews 83 ter. Using “Danza Kuduro” by Don Omar and Lucenzo as an example, Rivera-Rideau traces the diasporic linkages connecting reggaetón and marginalized Puerto Rican urban youth in New York to kuduro, an Angolan form of popular music, and Angolan and other immigrant African ur-ban youth in Portugal. While representing
Hispanophilic essayist Antonio Pedreira put up a spirited defense of the danza in his classic 1934 study of the Puerto Rican cultural dilemma, Insularismo, which argued that the danza embodied the best aspects of Puerto Rican character-gentility, mildness, and aestheticism-the very qualities threatened by vulgar, crass, commercial, and ...
Rivera and Cortijo deeply marked Puerto Rican contemporary culture, allowing us to reflect further on fundamental continuities. Their lives and musical influence embody the significant persistence and transformation of African forms in contemporary Puerto Rican dance practices.
Puerto Rican music has caught the public ear. Over the last ten years, Puerto Rican musical and dance expressions have captured the imagination of many, including popular audiences, journalists, documentarians, collectors, cultural workers, as well as university students and scholars.
