Reggaeton’s Global Expansion and Wide-Open Future

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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As the genre grows in worldwide popularity, it is engaging with the pop music mainstream and stratifying into subsets, introducing new opportunities and dilemmas. Guests: Isabelia Herrera and Katelina Eccleston.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times podcast, you're a looniest tune of music news and criticism.
0:12.1	I am your host, John Caramoneca.
0:22.9	You were just listening to Peppas by Faruco, as one of last year's big reggaeton hits.
0:28.8	It's an interesting stretch of time for the genre.
0:33.3	We have not talked about reggaeton in a minute on podcasts.
0:36.0	And so we're going to, on this episode, we're going to do a little bit of assessing the state of play.
0:42.0	What's been going on the last couple of years as it is getting bigger and bigger and more global?
0:47.5	Is it hitting creative lag points?
0:49.9	And perhaps most crucially, where are the innovations coming from?
0:54.3	Who's agitating on the margins against the very, very tight electronic global sound that has begun to calcify a little bit?
1:04.1	Big home run hitters on the show today.
1:06.9	First, you know where she's back.
1:08.7	It's Isabella Herrera, our art's critic fellow at the paper.
1:12.5	Hello.
1:13.4	Hey, y'all.
1:14.6	And joining us, first time on podcast, it's Catalina Eccleston, aka lagata.
1:20.6	Get involved.
1:21.3	It's reggaeton called lagata is the website.
1:23.6	Also the Twitter, the praio 101 podcast.
1:27.3	Also, Catalina worked on Spotify's loud podcast about the history of reggaeton.
1:31.9	And first time on podcast, welcome.
1:34.7	Hey, everyone.
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