The Scholar Who Took Bad Bunny to College: “Many Saw Her Show as a Threat to u.s. culture.”

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The academic Petra Rivera-Rideau, of Puerto Rican ancestry but raised in the United States, began in 2022 to teach a course on the history of Latin music at the prestigious Wellesley College, Massachusetts. Although the content was distributed among rock, mambo, salsa, bachata and corridos, the professor detected a singularity: all the final essays of her students chose Bad Bunny as the object of study. “Because they were fans of him,” she adds …