32.2010, FYI: Puerto Rican Spanish & Reggaeton: (Socio)linguistic Aspects

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Subject: 32.2010, FYI: Puerto Rican Spanish & Reggaeton: (Socio)linguistic Aspects

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 07:02:39
From: Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez [wilfredo.valentin-marquez at millersville.edu]
Subject: Puerto Rican Spanish & Reggaeton: (Socio)linguistic Aspects

 
This will be a collection of linguistic studies about the peculiarities of
Puerto Rican Spanish as related to the popularity of the musical genre known
as reggaeton. Of particular interest to sociolinguists and ethnomusicologists,
the book will also appeal to Spanish language educators and Latino studies
scholars looking at the interplay of music, language use, language attitudes,
and linguistic identity. More specifically, the volume will explore topics
like the following: (1) the frequency of use of Puerto Rican Spanish dialectal
variants in reggaeton compared to other musical genres and the covert prestige
of those variants; (2) the linguistic creation of a performative persona by
Puerto Rican reggaeton singers; (3) the projection of a performance identity
by reggaetoneros from other Latin American countries, based on dialect
leveling to that of top Puerto Rican reggaeton artists; (4) the adoption of
dialectal features of Puerto Rican Spanish by Latin American reggaeton fans;
(5) the attitudes towards Puerto Rican Spanish as directly associated to
attitudes towards reggaeton; (6) the lexical repertoire popularized by
reggaeton songs as well as the use of lexical borrowings from English and
codeswitching instances; (7) the rise in popularity of Colombian singers in a
domain once exclusively dominated by Puerto Rican reggaetoneros and its
implications associated to the ideology that Colombian Spanish is the most
prestigious variety of the language while PR Spanish is a highly-stigmatized
variety in Latin America; and (8) the presence of reggaeton in the linguistic
landscape of US cities and metropolitan areas. The relevance of this selection
of subjects is supported by the growth of the Hispanic population in the US,
the increasing presence of elements of Hispanic cultures in the media, the
frequent appearance of Latin hits in prestigious music charts like the
Billboard Hot 100, and the dominance of Latin music in platforms like Spotify
and YouTube. 

While a book like Berger & Carroll’s “Global Pop, Local Language” (2003, The
University Press of Mississippi) “examines how performers and audiences from a
wide range of cultures deal with the issue of language choice and dialect in
popular music” (back cover), this volume will focus on one particular musical
genre (reggaeton) and a specific language variety (Puerto Rican Spanish).
There are two volumes published by Duke University Press, “Reggaeton”, edited
by Rivera et al. (2009) and Rivera-Rideau’s “Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural
Politics of Race in Puerto Rico” (2015), analyze the genre’s aesthetics in
relation to hip-hop and the debates about broader topics like race, nation,
gender, and sexuality. Although these topics will be examined in the book
proposed here, it will be through a sociolinguistic lens.

 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Language Family(ies): Spanish based





 



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