About
About
This conversation aims to introduce reparto, a vibrant genre of Cuban music that is transforming popular culture. Emerging from the popular neighborhoods of Havana (repartos) in the late 2010s, reparto merges traditional Cuban sounds with the rhythms of hip-hop and reggaeton to produce the soundtrack of a new generation.
Journalists Taylin de la Caridad Jimenez Sevilla (El Estornudo) and Ana González Vila (Rolling Stone) join Camila Tiburcio Rubio (NYU CLACS, MA candidate) to discuss how the music, the performance, and the subcultures of reparto offer new modes of expression and belonging for Cubans across the island and abroad.
Participants
Participants
Taylin de la Caridad Jimenez Sevilla is a journalist interested in immigration, feminism, and other cultural issues. She has lived between Cuba and Mexico for much of her life. Taylin has taught podcast workshops at Centro A+ Espacio Adolescente, a Cuban cultural institution that seeks to advance the social inclusion of young people. Between 2021- 2022, she worked as a journalist and anchor for several radio and television outlets. In 2023, she was an intern at the Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers (BCJB), reporting on the northern border of Mexico. She collaborates with El Estornudo, Rialta, and other media.
Camila Tiburcio Rubio is a Miami native, writer, and cultural researcher based in New York City. Camila completed her B.A. in Social & Cultural Analysis at NYU (Summa Cum Laude, 2025) and is currently in NYU’s accelerated M.A. in Latin American & Caribbean Studies (’26). Her work follows Cubanidad, performance, and diaspora aesthetics through interviews, archives, and public-facing essays. Through regular trips to Miami and Cuba, her current work frames reparto as a site for social and cultural analysis.
Ana Gonzalez Vilá: Ana González Vilá is a Cuban American journalist whose work spans cultural and investigative storytelling. As a contributor to Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Atavist, she focuses on stories about Latinidad, art, music, identity, and community across the Americas. She recently returned from a two-month culture reporting internship in the Espectáculos section of Clarín in Buenos Aires. Ana holds a BA in Communication and Dance from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) chapter. Her reporting blends investigative rigor with a deeply sensory, performance-informed perspective rooted in her dance background.