Radio Ambulante: Getting Down

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4.5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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From our friends at Radio Ambulante, today we're sharing a thought provoking episode from their latest season. Puerto Rican Patricia Velasquez has spent her whole life listening to reggaeton. It's part of her identity. But when she was questioned about the content of the songs, she began an investigation that would lead her to create something completely new about the musical genre. This episode is in Spanish.

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0:24.5	Hey there, this is Felix. From our friends at Radio Ambulante, today we're sharing a thought-provoking
0:29.5	episode from their latest season. Puerto Rican Patricia Velazquez has spent her whole life
0:35.5	listening to reggaeton. It's part of her identity.
0:39.0	But when she was questioned about the content of the songs,
0:41.9	she began an investigation that would lead her to create something completely new about the musical genre.
0:48.4	This episode is in Spanish.
0:50.9	Enjoy.
0:51.6	Before. Before to commence, Is itency in this episode of the language explicit. So, recommend, discretion.
0:57.1	This is Raambulante
0:57.8	from NPR, so Daniel Alarcon.
1:00.9	There are two things that
1:01.6	are you about the Puerto Ricania, Patricia
1:03.8	Velasquez. The first is that
1:05.7	his 28 years, has something very
1:07.6	clear about it. If my
1:09.6	my life was a film,
1:11.5	the soundtrack
	...

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