{"id":1661,"date":"2009-03-07T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T18:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:01:59","slug":"covers-blurbs-y-otras-traducciones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"Covers, Blurbs, y Otras Traducciones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazing how an Amazon link<\/a> makes our book finally feel real. (Pre-orders in teh house!)<\/p>\n

And though they don’t have any imgs yet, I’m happy to report that I do, and — having lobbied HARD for this particular photo by Miguel Luciano<\/a> to grace our cover — I’m thrilled to share it with y’all:<\/p>\n


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\nOn the other hand<\/s> side, I may be as excited about the back cover as the front, since we were able to land such luminary thinkers and wordsmiths re: music and race and nation as Jeff Chang<\/a>, Mark Anthony Neal<\/a>, Juan Flores<\/a>, and Residente<\/a> (!).<\/p>\n


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Since I’m in a sharing mood, here’s a pdf of an article by Flores that makes a wonderful argument about diaspora “as source and challenge” what with its many “cultural remittances” “from below.” (Incidentally, Centro is offering many more pdfs<\/a> at their site; see, e.g., the 2004 issue on “Rican Structing Roots \/ Routes,” from which this piece comes.) <\/p>\n

Flores’s narrative centers on salsa and rap, but I’ve found the thesis utterly illuminating wrt reggaeton (as readers of my chapter in the book will see) —<\/p>\n

>> Flores, Juan. \u201cCreolit\u00e9 in the \u2018Hood: Diaspora as Source and Challenge.\u201d Centro Journal 16, no. 2 (2004): 282-93.<\/a>
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…<\/p>\n

& while I’m at it, here are two excerpts featured on a relatively recent Tego mixtape<\/a> (almost a year old now, actually). I offer these up as each wonderful examples of how reggaeton “works,” if you will, consistent with the rich remix\/reference culture<\/a> that it is.<\/p>\n

The first is a reworking of Fabolous’s unavoidable track from last year (and\/or 2007), “Make Me Better<\/a>” (incidentally, is it just me or does that central string motif sound awfully close to a recurring bit from the Lost score<\/a>?). We hear here, among other things, how reggaeton artists — just as their “underground” bredren<\/a> did in the 1990s — continue to version contemporary US\/urban pop, translating and transforming the sounds that surround us:<\/p>\n

>> Tego Calder\u00f3n (feat. De La Ghetto), “T\u00fa Me Haces Sentir”*<\/strong>
\n<\/a>[audio:http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/audio\/Tego-Tu-Me-Haces-Sentir.mp3]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As you hear toward the end there, that track leads into a rowdy cumbia parody (sounding remarkably similar to a Manu Chao song in the chorus). I like how it shows reggaeton’s ability to incorporate \/ allude to other genres — and the “cultural work” inherent to such (re)figurations — not to mention how it shows off reggaeton’s (and Tego’s) sense of humor, with El Negro Calde putting on an extra coarse accent for “realism”:<\/p>\n

>> Tego Calder\u00f3n, “El Hijo’e Puta Sin Saludar”*<\/strong>
\n<\/a>[audio:http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/audio\/Tego-El-Hijo-Puta-Sin-Saludar.mp3]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* for some reason, the tracks above sound distorted when listened to through the player; click on the song titles to hear more clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazing how an Amazon link makes our book finally feel real. (Pre-orders in teh house!) And though they don’t have any imgs yet, I’m happy to report that I do, and — having lobbied HARD for this particular photo by Miguel Luciano to grace our cover — I’m thrilled to share it with y’all: On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[400,55,89,272,417,158,405,421,122],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academic","tag-bookish","tag-cumbia","tag-pdf","tag-puertorico","tag-rb","tag-reggaeton","tag-remix","tag-traxx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8380,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}