Made in Puerto Rico

Hugo R. Viera-Vargas is Professor at the Universidad Albizu, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Associate Researcher at Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico. Noraliz Ruiz-Caraballo is Associate Researcher at Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico, and Musical Director for Orquesta Jíbara Dr. Francisco López Cruz, Puerto Rico. Errol L. Montes-Pizarro is Professor of Mathematics at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Cayey, and Associate Researcher at Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico. Jaime O. Bofill-Calero is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, and Associate Researcher at Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico. Noel Allende-Goitía is Associate Researcher at Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico, and Lecturer of Comparative History of Music and Research Methodology at Armoniarte Escuela Superior de Educación Artística, México.

Prologue Introduction: The embodied soundscape of popular music studies in Puerto Rico PART I: The invention of the popular in Puerto Rican music Section introduction: The invention of the popular in Puerto Rican music 1 What is popular in Puerto Rican music? Music and musiking as construction and affirmation of the self 2 Identity debates and symbolic capital: Cultural policies around traditional Puerto Rican music 3 Revisiting Puerto Rican Nueva Canción and its discourse of resistance 4 Cuatro music keeps finding new life: Artists, trends, and contemporary practice 5 Crisis notwithstanding: Metal in Puerto Rico PART II: Music, memory, and history Section introduction 6 Puerto Rican Music in the Afro-diasporic world 7 Plenazos callejeros, embodied memory, and contemporary plena in Puerto Rico, 2005–2012 8 (Re)listening to Gottschalk, Morel Campos, and the jíbaros: Danza’s connection with early jazz 9 Record companies in New York City’s East Harlem during the first half of the 20th century 10 Bomba: A long invisible practice of Black placemaking in Puerto Rico PART III: Globalization of the Puerto Rican sound Section introduction 11 De Puerto Rico Pa’l Mundo: A brief history of Puerto Rico’s reggaeton music scene 12 Between romantic idealism and the tough streets: A look at the development of contemporary salsa in Puerto Rico 13 Made in Puerto Rico, made in Chicago: Diaspora as a method for thinking about Puerto Rican music-dance 14 Queering Menudo: Forever Young 15 Coda: Interview with composer Angélica Negrón