Article: Puerto Rican affirmation and denial of musical nationalism: the cases of Campos Parsi and Aponte Ledee (1).

The issue of cultural nationalism has acquired a particular significance in Puerto Rico, due to the ambiguous political relationship between this Caribbean island and the United States that has existed since 1898, when the latter assumed political and economic power over the island. In the years that followed the U.S. occupation, the new officials clearly stated their intentions to assimilate Puerto Rico as part of U.S. mainstream society. Because of this situation a crisis of cultural identity became evident thirty years later in ways that compelled some Puerto Rican intellectuals to assess the question of a Puerto Rican "soul" or identity. Even today, when the dilemma ...

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