Replaying Marc Anthony

<div><i>Replaying Marc Anthony</i> 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.</div>