Rocking the Boat

Silvia Bermúdez is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPermissionsIntroduction1. The Roaring 1980s: From La Movida to Racial Naming, Slavery, and Muslims in the Catalan Maresme2. The 1990s, Take One: Fortress Europe, Racism, Apologies, and Contestation3. The 1990s, Take Two:  The Racial Profiling of Black and Maghrebi Migrant Subject 4. Twenty-First Century Musical Landscapes in Spain: From Ska and Música mestiza to Singing, Chilling and Rapping against RacismConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"Silvia Bermúdez’s latest book Rocking the Boat offers a timely look into how musical narratives produced in Spain serve as cultural responses to legislative measures to secure entry into Europe, and portray the experiences of transnational migrants from the early 1980s to 2011… Bermúdez’s thorough close reading and clear prose make Rocking the Boat a good selection for undergraduate seminars and graduate course syllabi, and Hispanists and music specialists will also appreciate her multidisciplinary approach."- Angela Acosta, The Ohio State University (EuropeNow) "The ambition of the monograph should be applauded." - Stuart Green, University of Leeds (Bulletin of Spanish Studies) "Beyond its usefulness in the classroom this trailblazing monograph will undoubtedly appeal to scholars across the disciplines and lead to new modes of inquiry."- Anna C. Tybinko, Duke University (Hispanófila)