Written by DPDF 2007 Black Atlantic Studies Fellow Petra Rivera.  

I examine how reggaeton artist Notch incorporates oratorical, visual, and musical cues in his music video, “Que te pica,” to establish connections between Latino and Caribbean communities in the United States that typically have been disavowed by hegemonic racial categories that distinguish between them. While Notch’s music disrupts these particular racial hierarchies, he also maintains heteronormative patriarchal relations in his video. I propose the analytic, Afro-Latino space, to account for the ways that reggaeton as a musical genre, and Notch more specifically, unsettle certain distinctions between blackness and Latinidad, while simultaneously relying on stereotypes of black hypermasculinity.

Publication Details

Title
Tropical Mix: Afro-Latino Space and Notch’s Reggaetón
Authors
Rivera-Rideau, Petra R.
Publisher
Routledge
Publish Date
May 2011
Citation
Rivera-Rideau, Petra R., Tropical Mix: Afro-Latino Space and Notch's Reggaetón (Routledge, May 2011).
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