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- Title
Cuba Rebelión: Underground Music in Havana.
- Authors
BAKER, GEOFFREY
- Abstract
Cuba Rebelión: UnderBround Music in Havana (2008) is billed as a "documentary about the musical underground of Cuba, and their struggle against the present regime." The trailer describes "an underground scene of young musicians who, despite their creative suppression and censorship, have the courage to make a statement." This article questions this characterization of contemporary underground music in Havana, analyzing the relationship between Cuban underground musicians and the state, with a focus on hip hop, rock. and reggaetón. It sheds light on media censorship, but also illustrates opportunities provided to underground musicians by state cultural institutions and digital technology. Censorship is an important trope, but in reality most musicians are free to record, distribute, and perform their music. It is arguably in the underground music economy that greater contestation lies.
- Subjects
CUBA; UNDERGROUND music; CUBAN music; MUSICIANS; MUSIC &; state; CENSORSHIP
- Publication
Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana, 2011, Vol 32, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0163-0350
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lat.2011.0008