SPAN 39 - From Bomba to Bad Bunny: A Sonic Story of Caribbean Music, Memory, and Migration
From the West African roots of bomba to the global rise of artist Bad Bunny, this course explores the rich soundscape of Spanish Caribbean music as a sonic story of memory, migration, identity and resistance. Synthesizing historical research with contemporary art and culture, we examine how genres like rumba, bachata, salsa, hip hop, and reggaetón have expressed the struggles and creativity of Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican communities across time and space. Students engage critically and personally with music as a form of cultural memory and social movement in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the United States. Taught in English.
Kiley Guyton Acosta
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