October 12, 2023 • 4 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, they're offering a Bad Bundy class at LMU Loyola
Marymount University here, and I've got the professor of the
Bad Bunny class on the line with us right now.
I wish they offered these classes when we were in school.
I mean to go to a Bad Bunny class and
(00:22):
get a credit for it, say I would have stayed
in college.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You're like, this is the fact that I want to do.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This is what I was trying to say. Nobody wanted
to listen. Uh, let's get to a professor Vanessa Diaz
on the line of l MU. Good morning, Professor Diaz,
how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Good morning. I'm doing well. Thanks, live from Puerto Rico
right now.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
What can you tell us? Right now?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
From Puerto Rico, it's very hot and everyone is eagerly
awaiting the drop of Bad Bunny's new album. There's already
people waiting outside of places suspecting that he might do
some of that. There's a lot of excitement. I bet so.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I just what is the class? If we signed up
for the Bad Bunny class, how do you frame the lesson?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So Bad Bunny is really a hook to talk about
bigger issues in Puerto Rico? Just like his music is
a hook to talk about Puerto Rico. We focus not
just on Bad Bunny and his lyrics and how he
is a groundbreaking artist in so many different ways, but
we talk about the Puerto Rican debt crisis, political struggles,
issues of gender, race, music, history of Puerto Rico. So
(01:33):
looking at the history of regazzon, but obviously Bad Bunny
is also this critically important cultural figure. The way he
represents for Puerto Rico, the way he represents for gender fluidity,
the way he speaks out about LGBTQ rights and issues.
It's you know, he's reached unprecedented levels of fame for
a Spanish language artist, and so we have to take
(01:54):
that really seriously.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I think it's interesting this concept of using someone who
is in the center of the zeitgeist and so popular
in culture, especially with young people, as using that as
a hook to talk about greater issues that are so
important to all of us. I wonder why that didn't
happen sooner.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know, it's a really great point. I think we're
at a moment where some people still think that this
isn't serious scholarship, that this doesn't reserve you know, that
this doesn't deserve a university course. But what we see
is that not only does it motivate young people to
want to learn about these broader issues that the artists
(02:35):
they love care about, but it's also that this is
history happening in real time. You know, I'm a cultural
anthropologist and I study the contemporary. We are documenting history
as it happens. And so you know, this is bigger
than Bad Bunny or any of the other artists who
kind of get these courses. He is doing major work
shifting cultural practices, and so you know, he's putting Porto
(02:59):
ric Go on the map in a very important way.
He's creating space for people, especially young people, to feel
affirmed and their gender and sexual identities. And I think that,
you know, we really have to understand that popular culture media,
you know, the work you do, this is really our
cultural reality, and if we don't take it seriously, then
(03:19):
we're missing some really important parts of our history as
it happens.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It's such a great idea and I'm so happy you're
doing it, and I love your enthusiasm. This is Professor
Vanessa Diaz at LM. You teaching the Bad Bunny class. Okay,
so will you analyze the sketches he does on SNL
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I absolutely will be watching for a close analysis and
we will talk about that in class. And we look
at his lyrics closely. We look at any performance of
Bad Bunny and put it in these broader context of
kind of what he wants to talk about.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Well, thank you have fun in Puerto Rico. Thanks for
coming on with us from there today. We really appreciate you.
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, thank you so much. It's nice to meet you too.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Take care, okay, bye bye you too. Just a little
hook right gets people to listen sometimes more to things
that exactly bigger issues, bigger issues, all right, coming up.
So that album's coming out when it comes.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Out tonight at nine pm, so everybody's anticipating it. It's
called Nadi Manyana. Nobody knows what, nobody knows what will
happen tomorrow tonight.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But tomorrow tonight, well nine pm midnight basically, but yes,
it drops technically Friday, October thirteenth, which is tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But you know, right,
Well, they're offering a Bad Bundy class at LMU Loyola
Marymount University here, and I've got the professor of the
Bad Bunny class on the line with us right now.
I wish they offered these classes when we were in school.
I mean to go to a Bad Bunny class and
(00:22):
get a credit for it, say I would have stayed
in college.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You're like, this is the fact that I want to do.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This is what I was trying to say. Nobody wanted
to listen. Uh, let's get to a professor Vanessa Diaz
on the line of l MU. Good morning, Professor Diaz,
how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Good morning. I'm doing well. Thanks, live from Puerto Rico
right now.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
What can you tell us? Right now?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
From Puerto Rico, it's very hot and everyone is eagerly
awaiting the drop of Bad Bunny's new album. There's already
people waiting outside of places suspecting that he might do
some of that. There's a lot of excitement. I bet so.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I just what is the class? If we signed up
for the Bad Bunny class, how do you frame the lesson?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So Bad Bunny is really a hook to talk about
bigger issues in Puerto Rico? Just like his music is
a hook to talk about Puerto Rico. We focus not
just on Bad Bunny and his lyrics and how he
is a groundbreaking artist in so many different ways, but
we talk about the Puerto Rican debt crisis, political struggles,
issues of gender, race, music, history of Puerto Rico. So
(01:33):
looking at the history of regazzon, but obviously Bad Bunny
is also this critically important cultural figure. The way he
represents for Puerto Rico, the way he represents for gender fluidity,
the way he speaks out about LGBTQ rights and issues.
It's you know, he's reached unprecedented levels of fame for
a Spanish language artist, and so we have to take
(01:54):
that really seriously.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I think it's interesting this concept of using someone who
is in the center of the zeitgeist and so popular
in culture, especially with young people, as using that as
a hook to talk about greater issues that are so
important to all of us. I wonder why that didn't
happen sooner.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know, it's a really great point. I think we're
at a moment where some people still think that this
isn't serious scholarship, that this doesn't reserve you know, that
this doesn't deserve a university course. But what we see
is that not only does it motivate young people to
want to learn about these broader issues that the artists
(02:35):
they love care about, but it's also that this is
history happening in real time. You know, I'm a cultural
anthropologist and I study the contemporary. We are documenting history
as it happens. And so you know, this is bigger
than Bad Bunny or any of the other artists who
kind of get these courses. He is doing major work
shifting cultural practices, and so you know, he's putting Porto
(02:59):
ric Go on the map in a very important way.
He's creating space for people, especially young people, to feel
affirmed and their gender and sexual identities. And I think that,
you know, we really have to understand that popular culture media,
you know, the work you do, this is really our
cultural reality, and if we don't take it seriously, then
(03:19):
we're missing some really important parts of our history as
it happens.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It's such a great idea and I'm so happy you're
doing it, and I love your enthusiasm. This is Professor
Vanessa Diaz at LM. You teaching the Bad Bunny class. Okay,
so will you analyze the sketches he does on SNL
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I absolutely will be watching for a close analysis and
we will talk about that in class. And we look
at his lyrics closely. We look at any performance of
Bad Bunny and put it in these broader context of
kind of what he wants to talk about.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Well, thank you have fun in Puerto Rico. Thanks for
coming on with us from there today. We really appreciate you.
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, thank you so much. It's nice to meet you too.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Take care, okay, bye bye you too. Just a little
hook right gets people to listen sometimes more to things
that exactly bigger issues, bigger issues, all right, coming up.
So that album's coming out when it comes.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Out tonight at nine pm, so everybody's anticipating it. It's
called Nadi Manyana. Nobody knows what, nobody knows what will
happen tomorrow tonight.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But tomorrow tonight, well nine pm midnight basically, but yes,
it drops technically Friday, October thirteenth, which is tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But you know, right,
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