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Definition of reggaeton
: popular music of Puerto Rican origin that combines rap with Caribbean rhythms
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With summer freshly arrived, what better way to celebrate than with one of Baltimore’s most dependable hot times? Enjoy a weekend of Latin food, dance and music (from two stages), with heavy doses of salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia and reggaeton.
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Although Mr. Colón, Mr. Blades and others have persisted with politically aware songwriting, in recent years hip-hop and reggaeton have largely seized the mantle of urban realism.
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Political controversy cast a shadow over this year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade, but the celebration carried on Sunday under the blazing sun to the tunes of salsa, reggaeton and airhorns.
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The album, mainly in Spanish with some English songs, includes pop, reggaeton, bachata, vallenato and funk sounds.
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Not every pop singer, though, has had to inhabit reggaeton attitudes to be successful.
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There are some who are really upset because reggaeton has become very commercialized.
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The song gracefully weaves reggaeton and cumbia drum patterns with Vives’ definitive vallenato flare.
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Carlos Vives’ songs are ebullient anthems that fill stadiums with the sounds of Colombia’s most characteristic and sacred rhythms remixed and blended with pop music, rock ’n’ roll and even — thanks to his compatriot Shakira — reggaeton.
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Origin and Etymology of reggaeton
American Spanish reggaetón, from reggae reggae + -ton (as in Spanish maratón marathon)
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