"En mi imperio": Competing discourses of agency in Ivy Queen's reggaetón

Centro Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 62-81

  Báez, Jillian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Gender; Hybridity; Music; Popular culture; Reggaet n

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750896882     PISSN: 15386279     EISSN: 15386279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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