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Puerto Rican music and politics are tightly linked. A new Yale course on Bad Bunny explores why

FILE: Bad Bunny performs at KFC YUM! Center on April 22, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky.
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FILE: Bad Bunny performs at KFC YUM! Center on April 22, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky.

This fall, will take a course called Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics.

Bad Bunny, born on the island of Puerto Rico as Benito Antonio Mart穩nez Ocasio, isnt the first . Regarding the Yale class, Bad Bunny told Rolling Stone magazine I have in the back of my mind that I want to do big things and make a difference, but I do it for myself.

I dont do it hoping that at some point, theyll offer classes about me at universities, he said.

Today on The Wheelhouse, how politics and music intersect on the island next door.

GUESTS:

  • , Associate professor of American Studies, Yale University
  • Rachel Iacovone, Puerto Rican communities reporter, CT Public
  • , Associate Professor of American Studies, Wellesley College
  • , Multimedia Artist and Historian
  • , Associate professor in the departments of political science and El Instituto, University of 窪蹋勛圖厙

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