%0 Journal Article
%T "En mi imperio": Competing discourses of agency in Ivy Queen's reggaet車n
%A Jillian M. B芍ez
%J Centro Journal
%D 2006
%I 
%X This paper argues for a more complex understanding of the intersection of gender and representation in reggaet車n. Using the music and career trajectory of the female artist Ivy Queen as a case study, the author demonstrates how her music and self-representation in interviews simultaneously functions as a potential site of female agency within a maledominated sphere while being constrained by transnational music industries and Latin American norms of femininity. More specifically, the essay offers a critical discourse analysis of the music, performances, interviews, and press reception of female reggaet車n artist, Ivy Queen, otherwise known as the  queen of reggaet車n,  to understand how she and the media construct her subjectivity and agency. Ultimately, the author argues that as reggaet車n∩s most popular female icon, Ivy Queen straddles a tenuous space in which her hybrid subjectivity is complex and at times seemingly contradictory
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