Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana by Geoffrey Baker, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun

Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana

Refiguring American Music

Geoffrey Baker, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun

410 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction music challenging informative medium-paced
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In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,...

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