Overview
Replaying Marc Anthony is the first book-length study of Marc Anthony's cultural, aesthetic, and political contributions to Latinx popular music and Latinx communities. Despite the trivializing label of ""Latino pop,"" Anthony's repertoire has had a tremendous impact on his audience, particularly within the US Latinx community. Considering his music outside of limiting frameworks imposed by the music industry, Frances R. Aparicio situates Anthony's songs within specific musical genealogies and histories, demonstrating that his songs not only foster healing from colonial violence but also produce, textually and sonically, multiple identities that resonate with his listeners. Relistening to five of Anthony's most canonical songs-""Preciosa,"" ""Hasta Que Te Conocí,"" ""I Need to Know,"" ""Aguanile,"" and ""Vivir Mi Vida""-Aparicio traces the circulation of these sonic texts, examining their social, cultural, gender, and political meanings. Among the myriad topics Marc Anthony's music critically reflects on are Puerto Rican and Diasporican itinerant subjectivities, Blackness, environmental crises, MexiRican sonic exchanges, Latinidad, masculinities, struggles with belonging as an ""American,"" and Global South solidarities.
Full Product Details
Author: Frances R Aparicio
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Imprint: Ohio State University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.268kg
ISBN: 9780814259573
ISBN 10: 081425957
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 04 September 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
""Aparicio builds cultural bridges across the diasporas of the Americas, offering readers new methods of interpretations for voices that go unnoticed and/or unheard. Replaying Marc Anthony will serve as a model to other authors who write on the relationship between song and identity politics."" --Jacqueline Avila, author of Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity during Mexico's Época de Oro ""Aparicio makes a case for pop music studies to be taken seriously as a form of politics, linking Anthony's songs to broader issues within Latinx and Puerto Rican studies--homeland and diaspora, gender and racial politics, cultural links between Latinxs and other groups, and more."" --Petra Rivera-Rideau, author of Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico
Author Information
Frances R. Aparicio is Professor Emerita in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University. She is the author of Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago and Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures, among other books, and coeditor of various critical anthologies.
