Reggaeton and academia: appropiations, misappropiations and aesthetics of resistance (Chile, 2016-2021)

Abstract

This article considers feminist strategies of cultural “appropriation” and “misappropriation” to discuss how reggaeton, activisms, mass media and academia are all entangled in Chilean public spaces. We address some media scenes of past years, to reflect upon reggaeton as more than a musical expression, but rather, a cultural manifestation that has transcended marketed receptions, and it has been appropriated by feminist movements and by the recent social uprising as an expression of agency and resistance, which is encoded in the self-governance and pleasure of the body in activist spaces.