Eleven ways to make reggaeton
So far we have talked about the commercial aspect of musical style, but since cultural expressions are an instrument, this type of music is also used to disseminate other messages. These include the Chaneka group. They are three people of Chilean origin who have been living in France for years. The name of the group makes its point of view clear, since Chilean bourgeois girls use the word “chaneka” as an insult to despise the black women who dance the reggaeton.
The members of the group say they make a transfeminist reggaeton, and a year ago they took music, because they like to perish and because they wanted to dance from feminism. “After all, as non-heterosexual people, we are used to bringing massive messages home. Mass music never thinks about us, and therefore, we act constantly, and at ease, hacking meanings. We need to exist, to find our place, to breathe, so we start reggaeton. The possible sexist burden of this music has not particularly affected us, because almost all production is sexist, classicist and homophobic. As we live in France, we find it suspicious to immediately denounce the reggaeton, insofar as it is Nasaca.”
It also serves to cope with exotization: “We have been criticized, even within the feminist movement, because with our dances, let us break the exoticism that Europeans impose on Latin Americans. But the thing is, there's exotization, it's happening, and we have to do something about it. We could take the role of victim, or exotization, turn ourselves around.”
They all agree that, beyond denouncing the Reggaeton Machian messages, we must emphasize the alternatives to publicize songs and groups that promote non-sexist messages. Among others are Empújalo (Bultza! ), by the Argentine group Chocolate Remix. the song that gives the instructions to decentralize the desolations of the pleasure of men, or the melody of the Chileans Torta Golosa, in favor of the free right to abortion, so that all the women of the country, including the poor and the Mapuche, can abort. Because of its limited resources, reggaeton is the perfect style for you to do it.
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