P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance
“Aquí mataron gente por sacar la bandera / Por eso es que ahora yo la llevo donde quiera." (Here they killed people for taking out the flag / that’s why I bring it anywhere I want now.)—LA MuDANZA
Global superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, like many other Puerto Ricans, has lived a life marked by public crises—blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption and oppression, among others—that have exposed the ongoing impacts of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Offering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, P FKN R draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in a historical, political, and cultural context. Authors Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau—creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus”—demonstrate Bad Bunny’s place in a long tradition of infusing both joy and protest into music and honor the many evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life.
- Author(s)
- Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
- Publication Year
- 2026
- Publication date
- January 27, 2026
- Pages
- 320
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- ISBN
- 9781478033332
- Dimensions
- 6.0 × 2.0 × 9.0 in
- Weight
- 1.0 lb
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