CMNS 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Special Period, N.W.A
5 Mar 2018
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Sound and the city: hip hop and the politics of urban space in havana. The relationship between popular music and the city: e. g. Frank sinatra, drake, n. w. a, sheryl crow, paul simon. In site of pace, pattern, and scale at which music is distributed and consumed globally, the significance of locality has not disappeared. In certain cases, when music is intimately bound to a given space, it gets commemorated. Cubans as the city was being remade for global investors and foreign mostly white tourists. It represented a means for them to access and define new relationship to public space. (cid:858)hip hop ga(cid:448)e you(cid:374)g cu(cid:271)a(cid:374)s a (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s of di(cid:448)ersio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d a (cid:272)ha(cid:374)(cid:374)el for their frustratio(cid:374)s duri(cid:374)g the. 1980s [and] offered the(cid:373) a (cid:448)oi(cid:272)e o(cid:374)(cid:272)e cu(cid:271)a(cid:374) so(cid:272)iety e(cid:374)tered the spe(cid:272)ial period of the (cid:1005)99(cid:1004)(cid:859). (fernandes, 2011, p. 175: e. g. In music, we hear the ways that residents live, experience, and imagine their city.
