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Puerto Rican music and politics are tightly linked. A new Yale course on Bad Bunny explores why

Today on The Wheelhouse, how politics and music intersect on the island next door.

06/25/2025

The Wheelhouse

Puerto Rican music and politics are tightly linked. A new Yale course on Bad Bunny explores why

Episode 35 | 48m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

Today on The Wheelhouse, how politics and music intersect on the island next door.

This fall, students at Yale University will take a course called “Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics.” Bad Bunny, born on the island of Puerto Rico as Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, isn’t the first Latino musician to weave activism into his work. Today on The Wheelhouse, how politics and music intersect on the island next door.

06/25/2025

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Puerto Rican music and politics are tightly linked. A new Yale course on Bad Bunny explores why

Episode 35 | 48m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

This fall, students at Yale University will take a course called “Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics.” Bad Bunny, born on the island of Puerto Rico as Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, isn’t the first Latino musician to weave activism into his work. Today on The Wheelhouse, how politics and music intersect on the island next door.

06/25/2025

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