Reggaeton, Narcoculture, and Social Banditry in the Puerto Rican Film Talento de Barrio

Reggaeton, Narcoculture, and Social Banditry in the Puerto Rican Film Talento de Barrio

<em>Talento de Barrio</em>, the highest-grossing domestic movie in Puerto Rican history, narrates the story of Edgar, a hoodlum played by reggaeton superstar Daddy Yankee. Through the opposition between Edgar and other clearly antisocial characters, the film seems to aim at the possibili...

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Main Author: Rafael Ponce-Cordero
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2016-12-01
Series:Mitologías Hoy
Subjects:
daddy yankee
reguetón
narcocultura
bandidaje social
puerto rico
Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/mitologias/article/view/392
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spelling doaj-662bdb75fa4e40e29b0bd733ededac022021-02-16T15:24:23ZspaUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaMitologías Hoy2014-11302016-12-0114013514910.5565/rev/mitologias.392267Reggaeton, Narcoculture, and Social Banditry in the Puerto Rican Film Talento de BarrioRafael Ponce-Cordero0Keene State College<em>Talento de Barrio</em>, the highest-grossing domestic movie in Puerto Rican history, narrates the story of Edgar, a hoodlum played by reggaeton superstar Daddy Yankee. Through the opposition between Edgar and other clearly antisocial characters, the film seems to aim at the possibility of the social bandit as a figure on the margins of legality but of positive sign. This paper draws on works by Hobsbawm, Benjamin, Agamben, and others in order to explore the reemergence of a certain notion of social banditry, connected to drug trafficking and its inherent extreme violence, in the current cinematic imagination of Latin America.https://revistes.uab.cat/mitologias/article/view/392daddy yankeereguetónnarcoculturabandidaje socialpuerto rico
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Reggaeton, Narcoculture, and Social Banditry in the Puerto Rican Film Talento de Barrio
Mitologías Hoy
daddy yankee
reguetón
narcocultura
bandidaje social
puerto rico
author_facet Rafael Ponce-Cordero
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title Reggaeton, Narcoculture, and Social Banditry in the Puerto Rican Film Talento de Barrio
title_short Reggaeton, Narcoculture, and Social Banditry in the Puerto Rican Film Talento de Barrio
title_full Reggaeton, Narcoculture, and Social Banditry in the Puerto Rican Film Talento de Barrio
title_fullStr Reggaeton, Narcoculture, and Social Banditry in the Puerto Rican Film Talento de Barrio
title_full_unstemmed Reggaeton, Narcoculture, and Social Banditry in the Puerto Rican Film Talento de Barrio
title_sort reggaeton, narcoculture, and social banditry in the puerto rican film talento de barrio
publisher Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
series Mitologías Hoy
issn 2014-1130
publishDate 2016-12-01
description <em>Talento de Barrio</em>, the highest-grossing domestic movie in Puerto Rican history, narrates the story of Edgar, a hoodlum played by reggaeton superstar Daddy Yankee. Through the opposition between Edgar and other clearly antisocial characters, the film seems to aim at the possibility of the social bandit as a figure on the margins of legality but of positive sign. This paper draws on works by Hobsbawm, Benjamin, Agamben, and others in order to explore the reemergence of a certain notion of social banditry, connected to drug trafficking and its inherent extreme violence, in the current cinematic imagination of Latin America.
topic daddy yankee
reguetón
narcocultura
bandidaje social
puerto rico
url https://revistes.uab.cat/mitologias/article/view/392
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