Reggaeton is a relatively new genre of dance music that has become popular in Puerto Rico over the last decade. The name is derived from the reggae music of Jamaica which influenced reggaeton's dance beat. Reggaeton was also heavily infuenced by other Puerto Rican music genres and by urban hip-hop music craze in the United States.

The variety of musical influences on the development of reggaeton led one observer (James Farber of the NY Daily News) to call it a "cultural polyglot".

As is the case with hip-hop music in the United States, reggaeton appeals primarily to youths. In Puerto Rico, youths were inspired to create reggaeton, after hearing Panamanian artists performing raps in Spanish styled after Jamaican dance-hall raps, adding native bomba and salsa, rhythms. The result can be heard in this example: Reggaeton Mix 1 by the Florida based band, BariMix.

Reggaeton is closely associated with the "underground" movement of urban youth and is sometimes also referred to in Spanish as "perreo", meaning "doggie"; a term describing a common reggaeton dance move that evokes a sexual position.

The reggaeton genre has also become popular in other Caribbean islands and neighboring nations, including the Dominican Republic, Perú, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Nicaragua. More recently, it has surfaced in the United States, particularly in those urban areas with large concentrations of Puerto Ricans or other Hispanics, such as New York and Miami.

The explosion in reggaeton's popularity in Latino urban centers have prompted some to speculate that the genre will soon eclipse salsa, merengue and other pop music among Puerto Rican and other Hispanic youth. In part, this might be due to lyrics on isues and subjects of interest to those audiences: urban crime, sex and racism; issues which have similarly made hip-hop music so popular.

What is Reggaeton?

Reggaeton is a type of music that has been very popular in Puerto Rico in the past 10 yrs. The name Reggaeton came from the Jamaican Reggae. Reggaeton has been brought up by other genre in Puerto Rico and by the hip-hop music from the United States. Reggaeton is believed to be for kids and teens. This type of music has not only become popular in Puerto Rico and in the United, but also I Caribbean Islands as well as in Dominican Republic, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Nicaragua.



History:

The first reggae recordings from Latin America was made in Panama in the mid-70s. The sound of reggae music was brought by a large number of Jamaican Immigrants while building the Panama Canal. In 1985, Vico C. a rapper from Puerto Rico made the first Spanish Hip-Hop recordings. In the early 1990s reggae became popular in Panama. This was around the same time that Jamaican Reggae was brought to Puerto Rico. Towards the middle of the decade Puerto Ricans started making their own music. The music was influenced by hip-hop and that recording was the first proper Reggaeton track. A couple of years later Panama created something similar to the Puerto Rican music.

Reggaeton Mix Andres Landa Xalapa Ver.

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