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Cuban Censorship: Chapter Summary And Analysis

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The idea of having this chapter in my thesis was because I wanted to give my opinion on the issue that the regime has with reggaeton. Throughout my thesis, I have been elaborating on the issues that reggaeton provoked in Puerto Rico in the 1980s and 90s and in early 2000 in Cuba, viewed from other scholar’s point of view. My idea of this chapter was not only to write about the recent issues that Cuba has with reggaeton but to give my point of view, the issues that I found interesting and important to be discussed. Throughout explaining the links between reggaeton and the state, I wanted to show that these issues were part of the Cuban society even before reggaeton shook the island with its beat, lyrics, and dance. As I already mentioned in the previous chapter, I wanted to relate reggaeton with censorship, explain why the Cuban state censors reggaeton and how is has been done. This was done in order to explain that although Cuba bans reggaeton songs or videos or even punishes artists for their behavior, these songs and videos always find their ways to circulate among the young Cubans and artists come back more famous than ever. In this part of censorship, I explained the originality of the Cuban reggaeton by giving few examples of double meaning in the lyrics. Discussing censorship, my idea was also to write about the division in Cuba between two worlds, the Cuban one, and the tourists.
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