Post by HarryHi,
I was in central america a month ago and there I heard a lot of really
good spanish reggae, especially in Costa Rica. Someone told me it's
called "dancehall panameña" but I don't know the artist's names. El
general makes quite similar music, but I didn't find anything else.
I tried to find it by searching for some top 100 charts from radio
stations or something like that but I couldn't find those either.
If you know some good links or artist's names/songs please tell me.
Thanks,
Harry
You might start here:
http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/en/genre_reggaeton.html
Even if this page reproduced beneath doesn't help you, you might still
be able to find what you're looking for using links from this page.
Genres: Reggaeton
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.
Currently, the leading exponents of reggaeton include Tego Calderón,
Queen Ivy, Don Chezina and Daddy Yankee, but the explosive growth in
the genre's popularity promises to bring many new artists to the dance
halls and discotheques and thereby, to the forefront of the urban
youth culture.
Take care,
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