Explores the imaginal world running through literature and music in Puerto Rico, considering the fiesta as a becoming and a shared epiphany of Puerto Rican sociability. Rather than tracing filiations or genealogies,we listen to how verse is infected by the drum, and which images and narratives insist through danza, bomba, plena, salsa, and reggaeton. Areresistance or identity privileged themes? What does it mean to listen? What do we listen to between rhythms and words? When andhow does the fiesta destitute and revolt against the political order?The course studies potens as the becoming of another world: energyand intensities that create world in text, song and dance and askswhether music can be thought without domestication. We will also examinethe limits and fixations of current academic, critical, and political discourse. Taught in Spanish.