Porno Para Ricardo

Rock music and the 'obsession with identity' in contemporary Cuba

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4985451
AutoresTom Astley (0009-0009-5810-3911, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume33
Fascículo3
Páginas455-472
Data de publicação2014-10-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPopular Music (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143014000609
OpenAlexW2051522892
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas14

The desire to construct and define a sense of national identity has often been regarded as something of an 'obsession' in Cuban political and cultural discourse. Throughout the Revolution, rock music has consistently played some part in the making of a Cuban soundscape. Yet rock has often been seen as something of a threat to an 'autochthonous' construction of Cuban culture, and has often been denied legitimacy as part of the Cuban soundworld. Despite the rather liminal position it occupied throughout the revolutionary period, rock music in contemporary Cuba is as 'obsessed' with constructing, defining and reflecting a sense of Cubanness as more 'recognisably Cuban' musical forms. In this paper I explore some of the negotiations and conflicts in the music of the controversial rock band, Porno Para Ricardo: negotiations between traditional musics, the state and rock music in the perennial quest to defineCubanía

Aesthetics · Art · Construct (python library · Identity (music · Legitimacy · Liminality · Literature · Musical · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Rock music · Social science · Sociology · Soundscape · State (computer science · Cuban History and Society · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Music History and Culture