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Abstract

This article studies how blackness is reformulated in Puerto Rico through the new movement of Puerto Rican Bomba. Focuses on the effects of the constant movement of Puerto Ricans between the archipelago and the Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States. Bomba is a music genre first developed in Puerto Rico with the arrival of the Africans who were brought during the slave trade in the sixteenth century. Today, the proliferation of Bomba groups and schools has mushroomed. This text seeks to contribute to the understanding of racial dynamics, question and explore the constructions of race in Puerto Rican music. The music contrasts the racial imaginary Afro Puerto vis-à-vis the national discourse on Blackness. The analysis approaches issues of nation, identity, race, music and gender from theories of racialization and the diaspora. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Title
De aquí pa'llá y de allá pa'cá: Los "toques" de la migración en la bomba puertorriqueña/From Here to There, and From There to Here: The "Pitches" of Migration in Puerto Rican Bomba
Author
Abadía-Rexach, Bárbara Idalissee
Pages
123-141
Publication year
2014
Publication date
Feb-May 2014
Publisher
Relaciones Internacionales
e-ISSN
16993950
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1509070622
Copyright
Copyright Relaciones Internacionales Feb-May 2014