Puerto Rican Music : Reggaeton
Reggaeton is a type of latin rap music and very big popular type of music in Puerto Rico that is very popular amoung the latino youth. It started in Panama with rapping in spanish and reggae but it originated in Puerto Rico with its influence of hip hop music and reggae. Putting in its music style and sound of american hip hop, reggae with Plena and Bomba rhythm and other spanish music such as Salsa and Dominican Merengue and Bachata. Vico C became one of the first reggaeton artists of Puerto Rico and also recorded the first spanish rap record. The popularity of reggaeton has hit all of latin america and with popular reggaeton artists such as Vico C, Tego Calderon, Daddy Yankee (one of the most fastest reggaeton rappers today), Don Omar, Ivy Queen (the first female and Queen of reggaeton), Wishin Y Yandel, Nicky Jam, Trebol Clan, Don Chezina, Baby Rasta y Gringo and Zion Y Lennox.
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Puerto Rican Music : Son and mambo
Son (music) and mambo are types of Cuban music that became very popular in Puerto Rico in the 1930s. Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants soon brought the music to New York City, where it evolved into salsa music in the early 1950s.
Puerto Rican Music : Improvisation and Controversia
The heart of much Puerto Rican music is the idea of improvisation in both the music and the lyrics. A performance takes on an added dimension when the audience can anticipate the response of one performer to a difficult passage of music or clever lyrics created by another. This technique in Puerto Rico is called a controversia. A similar dialog creates a heightened appreciation in the classical music of India, or in a lively jam session in jazz.
Music of Puerto Rico
The music of Puerto Rico has been influenced by African and European (especially Spanish) forms, and has become popular across the Caribbean and in some communities worldwide. Native popular genres include bomba and plena, while more modern innovations include the hip hop fusion reggaeton.
Puerto Rican Music : Nueva canción, hip hop and merengue
Chilean nueva canción was popularized in the end of the decade, producing stars like El Jibaro and Antonio "El Topo" Caban Vale, both of whom were connected to the Puerto Rican independence movement. Hip hop stars like Vico C made Puerto Rico a center of Latin rap in the 80s, and saw Dominican merengue spread across the island. Many of the biggest stars of the genre in the 90s were Puerto Rican, including Elvis Crespo, Grupo Manía and Olga Tañon. Bomba influences among Puerto Rican merengue stars led to the invention
Puerto Rican Music : Aguinaldo
The Aguinaldo is similar to Christmas carols, except that they are usually sung in a parranda, which is rather like a lively parade that moves from house to house in the neighborhood, looking for holiday food and drink. The melodies were subsequently used for the improvisational décima and seis. There are aguinaldos that are ususally song in churches or religious services, while there are aguinaldos that are more popular and are song in the parrandas.
