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

Season 1 Episode 35 | 48m 46s

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.

Aired: 06/24/25
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