The Evil of the Buttocks: Negative Labeling of Latino Blackness Through Caribbean Music, and How They Learned to Play the Game

Abstract:

We describe our ethnographic observations and personal experience about how Afro-Caribbean music and its musical videos profited historically from negative labeling to produce status and national identity. We compare contemporary experience with reggaetón with historical data about several musical genres, from the Inquisition to the 20th century. During this period, the introduction of African-inspired dances violated racial boundaries that upper-class European elites sought to preserve. Hostility to the resulting music and dance that were used by mixed-race populations to find new forms of status remains at the heart of negative labeling of Blackness by whites and by higher classes. Do you like Latino dance music? Choose a sound system and enjoy this story.

Año de publicación:

2021

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