Bad Bunny college course highlights artist's cultural, political impact
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A college course about Bad Bunny will focus on topics including the global flow of music from South America to North America, social justice and politics.
Bad Bunny, the six-time Grammy Award winner and upcoming Super Bowl 60 halftime performer, has become the subject of an academic course at San Diego State University that examines his cultural influence on a global scale.
The Puerto Rican artist recently won the 2026 Album of the Year Grammy for "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos" (translated as "I Should Have Taken More Pictures"). During his acceptance speech, Bad Bunny dedicated the award to people who left their homeland to follow their dreams.
"He's everywhere and I think he just keeps growing bigger and bigger and he is in every single aspect of media whether it's the music he does, the halftime show, he does WWE, movies, commercials," San Diego State Professor Nathian Rodriguez said.
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Rodriguez is teaching "Bad Bunny: Perreo, Performance and Pop Culture Politics" at SDSU as a case study on the artist. Perreo is a popular dance style originating from Puerto Rico that's connected to reggaeton music.
