La racialidad en la música: De Nicolás Guillén al rap y a Tony Ávila

The acknowledge of existence of racial discriminatory manifestations in Cuban society nowadays beside the declaration of the United Nations declaration of the decade of afro descendants in 2015 create the proper framework for developing any investigation related with racial topic. That’s why the goa...

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Main Author: Teresa Victoria Burunate Sánchez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2020-07-01
Series:Comparative Cultural Studies
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ccselap/article/view/11852
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description The acknowledge of existence of racial discriminatory manifestations in Cuban society nowadays beside the declaration of the United Nations declaration of the decade of afro descendants in 2015 create the proper framework for developing any investigation related with racial topic. That’s why the goal of the present paper is to reveal how racial problem has been developed in Cuban music through the lyric of Nicolas Guillen’s poems Motivos de Son, the Cuban rap ¿Quién tiro la tiza? And Cientificamente Negro of Tony Avila. Originally Guillen’s poems were not conceived to be used by any musician. Nevertheless, outstanding musicians took them inspired by poems’ metric, rhythm and their poetic structure. Indeed, author main purpose was that negro people recognize and assume himself as such; the theme of the rap is a critical answer to the rebirth of hidden form of racial discrimination that emerged due to the economical social changes resulting from economical political situation while in Tony Avila’s work the negro not only conscientious assume himself as such, at the same time censure the persistence of stereotypes and exclusion racial manifestation.
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spelling doaj.art-f9bf20c4652e43a993e6aa4fb4b861662022-12-22T04:08:10ZengFirenze University PressComparative Cultural Studies2531-98842020-07-015910.13128/ccselap-11852La racialidad en la música: De Nicolás Guillén al rap y a Tony ÁvilaTeresa Victoria Burunate Sánchez0Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La HabanaThe acknowledge of existence of racial discriminatory manifestations in Cuban society nowadays beside the declaration of the United Nations declaration of the decade of afro descendants in 2015 create the proper framework for developing any investigation related with racial topic. That’s why the goal of the present paper is to reveal how racial problem has been developed in Cuban music through the lyric of Nicolas Guillen’s poems Motivos de Son, the Cuban rap ¿Quién tiro la tiza? And Cientificamente Negro of Tony Avila. Originally Guillen’s poems were not conceived to be used by any musician. Nevertheless, outstanding musicians took them inspired by poems’ metric, rhythm and their poetic structure. Indeed, author main purpose was that negro people recognize and assume himself as such; the theme of the rap is a critical answer to the rebirth of hidden form of racial discrimination that emerged due to the economical social changes resulting from economical political situation while in Tony Avila’s work the negro not only conscientious assume himself as such, at the same time censure the persistence of stereotypes and exclusion racial manifestation.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ccselap/article/view/11852musical creationsracialitystereotyperacial prejudice racism
spellingShingle Teresa Victoria Burunate Sánchez
La racialidad en la música: De Nicolás Guillén al rap y a Tony Ávila
Comparative Cultural Studies
musical creations
raciality
stereotype
racial prejudice racism
title La racialidad en la música: De Nicolás Guillén al rap y a Tony Ávila
title_full La racialidad en la música: De Nicolás Guillén al rap y a Tony Ávila
title_fullStr La racialidad en la música: De Nicolás Guillén al rap y a Tony Ávila
title_full_unstemmed La racialidad en la música: De Nicolás Guillén al rap y a Tony Ávila
title_short La racialidad en la música: De Nicolás Guillén al rap y a Tony Ávila
title_sort la racialidad en la musica de nicolas guillen al rap y a tony avila
topic musical creations
raciality
stereotype
racial prejudice racism
url https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ccselap/article/view/11852
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