Season 2: The Puerto Rican Experience in 8 Songs

La Brega

WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios

Podcast, Puerto, San, Historia, La, De, Vieques, Juan, Rico, Society & Culture, Levittown, Noticias, Brega

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

As the island donde hasta la piedras cantan — “where even the rocks sing” — Puerto Rico is home to a dizzying breadth of musical expression. From the lyrical boleristas of the 1930s, to the electric salseros of the ’70s, to the reggaetoneros of today who have taken music from the margins and made it a global sensation, this season takes listeners on an exciting, richly-reported, cross-genre adventure that captures the ceaseless creativity, emotional resonance, and yes, la brega that are hallmarks of Puerto Rican music across eras and formats. Voices featured in this trailer include: Elena Martínez, José Massó, Gabby Rivera, Afrika Clivillés, Lia Camille Crockett, Bianca Graulau, Omar Alfanno, Ruben Blades, Mireya Ramos, Velcro, Susana Baca, and Alberto “Ringo” Martínez. The first episode drops Thursday, January 26. Subscribe now. This season of La Brega is made possible by the Mellon Foundation.

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0:00.0	Listen to support it, W NYC Studios.
0:07.0	When it comes to music, you can hear Puerto Rico all over the world.
0:15.0	Tucked into our lyrics are stories about who we are.
0:18.0	A Puerto Rico in Swayena.
0:20.0	And what we want.
0:21.0	When you live on the margins, you have to know a lot of other things to survive about Puerto Ricanness and what that means.
0:26.0	We had this persona being at Malo, right?
0:28.0	Taradian-Q, you've got to speak all the languages.
0:31.0	So this season, we're listening closely to our iconic songs.
0:35.1	Songs about home and leaving, songs about freedom and our bodies,
0:38.9	about losing what should be ours and fighting for it.
0:41.9	The Lucha siger, but it's a lucha thrift.
0:45.0	It's the classic, gets all the Diaz moving.
0:48.0	They just strike a chord in your heart
0:50.0	and they make you want to just look the next flight home.
0:53.0	La Brega, the Puerto Rican experience in eight songs.
0:57.0	I'm coaching La Brega.
0:59.0	La Brega.
1:01.0	Coming January 26th
1:03.4	26th
1:05.8	Bien Sassonau La Buea.

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