'One cannot talk about the modern iteration of reggeaton without acknowledging the systematic effort to erase the genre completely.'
) is able to crossover to the Latinx market and go back and forth to the American market is proof that Black Latinas are marketable. Women drive those sales; they’re versatile and multicultural.”Black women’s spending influence is in the trillions, as Eccleston suggests, industry executives perpetuate the racist notion that Latinegras aren't marketable.
“Colorism is so rampant in [the Latin American] market that the new direction artists are pushing towards is to crossover with Black artists because they recognize that they don’t have the sauce or anything close to it. They don’t get it, they’ve overstayed their welcome in a Black genre and no amount of engineering can make magic like reggaeton’s pre-pop infusion.”
One cannot talk about the modern iteration of reggeaton without acknowledging the systematic effort to erase the genre completely. In the ‘90s and early 2000s, the Puerto Rican government targeted reggaeton withcaserios , or poor low-income housing projects around the island. In 2002, an aggressive anti-pornography campaign meant to oppose the sexual representations in reggaeton videos was also launched.
With reggaeton being so inherently tethered to dancehall and hip-hop, reggaeton forces us to obstruct the dangerous tall tale of Latinos as monolithic and consider the African diasporic connections to Puerto Rico and other Spanish-speaking places throughout Latin America.As reggaeton goes pop and the gatekeepers of music and entertainment reimagine the genre’s DNA for mass consumption, it is imperative to honor those that laid the building blocks of a sound.
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