Cultural Identity, colonialism, and gentrification in Puerto Rico

Bad Bunny’s El Apagón as a case study

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ID21981969
AuthorsBárbara Barreiro León (0000-0002-7647-7345, University of Aberdeen, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume15
Issue1
Pages151-164
Publication date2025-05-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIASPM Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2079-3871 • E-ISSN: 2079-3871
PublisherInternational Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5429/2079-3871(2025)v15i.10en
OpenAlexW4410588628
LanguageEN
References cited11

A new phenomenon of Latin music, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, or better known as Bad Bunny, has triumphed worldwide, being the most listened to artist on Spotify in 2021, 2022 and 2023. The Puerto Rican artist's relationship with his country of origin has always been very close since cultural references to the island abound in his lyrics and song narratives. A nationalist feeling almost against the American mentality that thinks of Puerto Rico as a US state, connecting transnationalism in addition to presenting postcolonial cultural differences. Puerto Rican culture presents diversity and heritage, not only musically, but also in popular culture. In this sense, Bad Bunny makes multiple references to characters from Puerto Rico as well as widely known songs from his land

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnology · Genealogy · Gentrification · Geography · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Engineering · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Media, Gender, and Advertising

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