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Barbados">Barbados</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Bermuda" title="Music of Bermuda">Bermuda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Bonaire" class="mw-redirect" title="Music of Bonaire">Bonaire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_the_Cayman_Islands" title="Music of the Cayman Islands">Cayman Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Cuba" title="Music of Cuba">Cuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Music of Curaçao">Curaçao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Dominica" title="Music of Dominica">Dominica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_the_Dominican_Republic" title="Music of the Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Grenada" title="Music of Grenada">Grenada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Guadeloupe" title="Music of Guadeloupe">Guadeloupe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Guyana" title="Music of Guyana">Guyana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Haiti" title="Music of Haiti">Haiti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Jamaica" title="Music of Jamaica">Jamaica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Louisiana" title="Music of Louisiana">Louisiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Martinique" title="Music of Martinique">Martinique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Montserrat" title="Music of Montserrat">Montserrat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis" title="Music of Saint Kitts and Nevis">St Kitts and Nevis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Saint_Lucia" title="Music of Saint Lucia">St Lucia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines" title="Music of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines">St Vincent and Grenadines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Suriname" title="Music of Suriname">Suriname</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Music of Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_the_Turks_and_Caicos_Islands" title="Music of the Turks and Caicos Islands">Turks and Caicos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_the_Virgin_Islands" title="Music of the Virgin Islands">Virgin Islands</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Music_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Template:Music of Puerto Rico"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Music_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Template talk:Music of Puerto Rico"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Music_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Music of Puerto Rico"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Music of <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></b> has evolved as a heterogeneous and dynamic product of diverse cultural resources. The most conspicuous musical sources of Puerto Rico have primarily included <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Africa" title="Music of Africa">African</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taino" class="mw-redirect" title="Taino">Taino</a> <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_music" title="Indigenous music">Indigenous</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Europe#Music" title="Culture of Europe">European</a> influences. Puerto Rican music culture today comprises a wide and rich variety of genres, ranging from essentially native genres such as <a href="/wiki/Bomba_(Puerto_Rico)" title="Bomba (Puerto Rico)">bomba</a>, <a href="/wiki/J%C3%ADbaro_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Jíbaro music">jíbaro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seis" title="Seis">seis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Danza" title="Danza">danza</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Plena" title="Plena">plena</a> to more recent hybrid genres such as <a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">salsa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latin_trap" title="Latin trap">Latin trap</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reggaeton" title="Reggaeton">reggaeton</a>. Broadly conceived, the realm of "Puerto Rican music" should naturally comprise the music culture of the millions of people of Puerto Rican descent who have lived in the United States, especially in New York City. Their music, from salsa to the <a href="/wiki/Boleros" class="mw-redirect" title="Boleros">boleros</a> of <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Hern%C3%A1ndez_Mar%C3%ADn" title="Rafael Hernández Marín">Rafael Hernández</a>, cannot be separated from the music culture of Puerto Rico itself. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Traditional,_folk,_and_popular_music"><span id="Traditional.2C_folk.2C_and_popular_music"></span>Traditional, folk, and popular music</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Traditional, folk, and popular music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Museo_de_la_M%C3%BAsica_Puertorrique%C3%B1a,_C._Isabel_y_C._Salud,_Barrio_Tercero,_Ponce,_Puerto_Rico,_mirando_al_sureste_(IMG_2958).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Museo_de_la_M%C3%BAsica_Puertorrique%C3%B1a%2C_C._Isabel_y_C._Salud%2C_Barrio_Tercero%2C_Ponce%2C_Puerto_Rico%2C_mirando_al_sureste_%28IMG_2958%29.jpg/200px-Museo_de_la_M%C3%BAsica_Puertorrique%C3%B1a%2C_C._Isabel_y_C._Salud%2C_Barrio_Tercero%2C_Ponce%2C_Puerto_Rico%2C_mirando_al_sureste_%28IMG_2958%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Museo_de_la_M%C3%BAsica_Puertorrique%C3%B1a%2C_C._Isabel_y_C._Salud%2C_Barrio_Tercero%2C_Ponce%2C_Puerto_Rico%2C_mirando_al_sureste_%28IMG_2958%29.jpg/300px-Museo_de_la_M%C3%BAsica_Puertorrique%C3%B1a%2C_C._Isabel_y_C._Salud%2C_Barrio_Tercero%2C_Ponce%2C_Puerto_Rico%2C_mirando_al_sureste_%28IMG_2958%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Museo_de_la_M%C3%BAsica_Puertorrique%C3%B1a%2C_C._Isabel_y_C._Salud%2C_Barrio_Tercero%2C_Ponce%2C_Puerto_Rico%2C_mirando_al_sureste_%28IMG_2958%29.jpg/400px-Museo_de_la_M%C3%BAsica_Puertorrique%C3%B1a%2C_C._Isabel_y_C._Salud%2C_Barrio_Tercero%2C_Ponce%2C_Puerto_Rico%2C_mirando_al_sureste_%28IMG_2958%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Museo_de_la_M%C3%BAsica_Puertorrique%C3%B1a" title="Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña">The Museum of Puerto Rican Music</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ponce,_Puerto_Rico" title="Ponce, Puerto Rico">Ponce</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_music">Early music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The music culture in Puerto Rico during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is poorly documented. Certainly, it included Spanish troubadour, church music, military band music, and diverse genres of dance music cultivated by the <a href="/wiki/J%C3%ADbaro_(Puerto_Rico)" title="Jíbaro (Puerto Rico)">jíbaros</a> and enslaved Africans and their descendants. While these later never constituted more than 11% of the island's population, they contributed to some of the island's most dynamic musical features becoming unforgettable and distinct indeed. </p><p>In the 19th century Puerto Rican music begins to emerge into historical daylight, with notated genres like <a href="/wiki/Danza" title="Danza">danza</a> being naturally better documented than folk genres like jíbaro music and <a href="/wiki/Bomba_(Puerto_Rico)" title="Bomba (Puerto Rico)">bomba y plena and seis</a>. However, in the early 20th century “musica Jíbara” gained recording momentum, and we began to see poet or troubadour-jíbaro artists record music in Puerto Rico as well as New York. Names such as Alfonso Velez, Johnny Albino, Ramito, Nito Mendez, and Odilio Gonzalez saw lots of studio time, influencing new sounds in the Caribbean. </p><p>The African people of the island used drums made of carved hardwood covered with untreated rawhide on one side, commonly made from goatskin. A popular word derived from creole to describe this drum was <i>shukbwa</i>, which translates to 'trunk of tree'. After the arrival of African slaves, <a href="/wiki/Bomba_(Puerto_Rico)" title="Bomba (Puerto Rico)">Bomba</a> became the music of the people. </p><p>(Unfinished) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Folk_music">Folk music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Folk music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If the term "folk music" is taken to mean music genres that have flourished without elite support<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (July 2014)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, and have evolved independently of the commercial mass media, the realm of Puerto Rican folk music would comprise the primarily Hispanic-derived jíbaro music, the Afro-Puerto Rican bomba, and the essentially "creole" plena. As these three genres evolved in Puerto Rico and are unique to that island<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, they occupy a respected<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view"><span title="This statement is possibly biased. (July 2014)">neutrality</span></a> is <a href="/wiki/Talk:Music_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Talk:Music of Puerto Rico">disputed</a></i>]</sup> place in island culture, even if they are not currently as popular as contemporary music such as salsa or reggaeton. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Jíbaro_music"><span id="J.C3.ADbaro_music"></span>Jíbaro music</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Jíbaro music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rico_Exhibit-Tiple_Requinto--1800s.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rico_Exhibit-Tiple_Requinto--1800s.jpg/200px-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rico_Exhibit-Tiple_Requinto--1800s.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="461" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rico_Exhibit-Tiple_Requinto--1800s.jpg/300px-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rico_Exhibit-Tiple_Requinto--1800s.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rico_Exhibit-Tiple_Requinto--1800s.jpg/400px-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rico_Exhibit-Tiple_Requinto--1800s.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3442" data-file-height="7937" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Tiple_(Puerto_Rico)" title="Tiple (Puerto Rico)">Tiple Requinto</a> (1880) from Puerto Rico</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/J%C3%ADbaro_(Puerto_Rico)" title="Jíbaro (Puerto Rico)">Jíbaros</a> are small farmers of mixed descent who constituted the overwhelming majority of the Puerto Rican population until the mid-twentieth century.<sup id="cite_ref-Ethnomusicologist_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ethnomusicologist-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are traditionally recognized as romantic icons of land cultivation, hard-working, self-sufficient, hospitable, and with an innate love of song and dance. Their instruments<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> were relatives of the Spanish vihuela, especially the <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rican_cuatro" title="Puerto Rican cuatro">cuatro</a> — which evolved from four single strings to five pairs of double strings —<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the lesser known tiple.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A typical jíbaro group nowadays might feature a cuatro, guitar, and percussion instrument such as the <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCiro" title="Güiro">güiro</a> scraper and/or bongo. Lyrics to jíbaro music are generally in the décima form, consisting of ten <a href="/wiki/Octosyllabic" class="mw-redirect" title="Octosyllabic">octosyllabic</a> lines in the <a href="/wiki/Rhyme_scheme" title="Rhyme scheme">rhyme scheme</a> ABBA ACCDDC. Décima form derives from 16th century Spain. Although it has largely died out in that country (except the Canaries), it took root in various places in Latin America—especially Cuba and Puerto Rico—where it is sung in diverse styles. A sung décima might be pre-composed, derived from a publication by some literati, or ideally, improvised on the spot, especially in the form of a “controversia” in which two singer-poets trade witty insults or argue on some topic. In between the décimas, lively improvisations can be played on the cuatro. This music form is also known as "típica" as well as "trópica". </p><p>The décimas are sung to stock melodies, with standardized cuatro accompaniment patterns. About twenty such song types are in common use. These are grouped into two broad categories, viz., seis (e.g., seis fajardeño, seis chorreao) and aguinaldo (e.g., aguinaldo orocoveño, aguinaldo cayeyano). Traditionally, the seis could accompany dancing, but this tradition has largely died out except in tourist shows and festivals. The aguinaldo is most characteristically sung during the Christmas season, when groups of revelers (parrandas) go from house to house, singing jíbaro songs and partying. The aguinaldo texts are generally not about Christmas, and also unlike Anglo-American Christmas carols, they are generally sung by a solo with the other revelers singing the chorus. In general, the Christmas season is a time when traditional music—both seis and aguinaldo—is most likely to be heard. Fortunately, many groups of Puerto Ricans are dedicated to preserving traditional music through continued practice. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/57px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/76px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a> has original text related to this article: <div style="margin-left: 10px;"><b><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Journal_of_American_Folklore_vol._31.djvu/299" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Page:Journal of American Folklore vol. 31.djvu/299">Porto-Rican Folk-lore Décimas, Christmas Carols, Nursery Rhymes and other songs.</a></b></div></div></div> </div> <p>Jíbaro music came to be marketed on commercial recordings in the twentieth century, and singer-poets like <a href="/wiki/Ramito" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramito">Ramito</a> (Flor Morales Ramos, 1915–90) are well documented. However, jíbaros themselves were becoming an endangered species, as <a href="/wiki/Agribusiness" title="Agribusiness">agribusiness</a> and urbanization have drastically reduced the numbers of small farmers on the island. Many jíbaro songs dealt accordingly with the vicissitudes of migration to New York. Jíbaro music has in general declined accordingly, although it retains its place in local culture, especially around Christmas time and special social gatherings, and there are many cuatro players, some of whom have cultivated prodigious virtuosity. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Bomba">Bomba</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bomba"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bomba_(Puerto_Rico)" title="Bomba (Puerto Rico)">Bomba (Puerto Rico)</a></div> <p>Historical references indicate that by the decades around 1800 plantation slaves were cultivating a music and dance genre called bomba. By the mid-twentieth century, when it started to be recorded and filmed, bomba was performed in regional variants in various parts of the island, especially Loíza, Ponce, San Juan, and Mayagüez. It is not possible to reconstruct the history of bomba; various aspects reflect Congolese derivation, though some elements (as suggested by subgenre names like <i>holandés</i>) have come from elsewhere in the Caribbean. French Caribbean elements are particularly evident in the bomba style of Mayagüez, and striking choreographic parallels can be seen with the <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9l%C3%A9" title="Bélé">bélé</a> of <a href="/wiki/Martinique" title="Martinique">Martinique</a>. All of these sources were blended into a unique sound that reflects the life of the Jibaro, the slaves, and the culture of Puerto Rico. </p><p>In its call-and-response singing set to ostinato-based rhythms played on two or three squat drums (<i>barriles</i>), bomba resembles other neo-African genres in the Caribbean. Of clear African provenance is its format in which a single person emerges from an informal circle of singers to dance in front of the drummers, engaging the lead drummer in a sort of playful duel; after dancing for a while, that person is then replaced by another. While various such elements can be traced to origins in Africa or elsewhere, bomba must be regarded as a local Afro-Puerto Rican creation. Its rhythms (e.g. <i>seis corrido, yubá, leró</i>, etc.), dance moves, and song lyrics that sometimes mimic farm animals(in Spanish, with some French creole words in eastern Puerto Rico) collectively constitute a unique Puerto Rican genre. </p><p>In the 1950s, the dance-band ensemble of Rafael Cortijo and Ismael Rivera performed several songs in they had labeled as "bombas"; although these bore some similarities to the <i>sicá</i> style of bomba, in their rhythms and horn arrangements they also borrowed noticeably from the Cuban dance music which had long been popular in the island. Giving rise to Charanga music. As of the 1980s, bomba had declined, although it was taught, in a somewhat formalized fashion, by the Cepeda family in Santurce, San Juan, and was still actively performed informally, though with much vigor, in the Loíza towns, home to the then Ayala family dynasty of bomberos. Bomba continues to survive there and has also experienced something of a revival, being cultivated by folkloric groups such as Son Del Batey, Los Rebuleadores de San Juan, Bomba Evolución, Abrane y La Tribu, and many more elsewhere on the island. In New York City with groups such as <a href="/wiki/Los_Pleneros_de_la_21" title="Los Pleneros de la 21">Los Pleneros de la 21</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Smithsonian_-_Los_Pleneros_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smithsonian_-_Los_Pleneros-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> members of La Casita de Chema, and Alma Moyo. In Chicago Buya, and Afro-Caribe have kept the tradition alive and evolving. In California Bomba Liberte, Grupo Aguacero, Bombalele, La Mixta Criolla, Herencia de los Carrillo, and Los Bomberas de la Bahia are all groups that have promoted and preserved the culture. Women have also played a role in its revival, as in the case of the all-female group Yaya, Legacy Woman, Los Bomberas de la Bahia, Grupo Bambula (Originally female group), and Ausuba in Puerto Rico. </p><p>There has also been a strong commitment towards Bomba Fusion. Groups such as Los Pleneros de la 21, and Viento De Agua have contributed greatly towards fusing Bomba and Plena with Jazz and other Genres. Yerbabuena has brought a popular cross-over appeal. Abrante y La Tribu have made fusions with Hip Hop. Tambores Calientes, Machete Movement, and Ceiba have fused the genres with various forms of Rock and Roll. </p><p>The Afro-Puerto Rican <i>bombas</i>, developed in the sugarcane haciendas of Loíza, the northeastern coastal areas, in Guayama and southern Puerto Rico, utilize barrel drums and tambourines, while the rural version uses stringed instruments to produce music, relating to the bongos. (1) “The bomba is danced in pairs, but there is no contact. The dancers each challenge the drums and musicians with their movements by approaching them and performing a series of fast steps called floretea piquetes, creating a rhythmic discourse. Unlike normal dance routines, the drummers are the ones who follow the performers and create a beat or rhythm based on their movements. Women who dance bomba often use dresses or scarves to enhance bodily movements.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike normal dance terms, the instruments follow the performer. </p><p>Like other such traditions, bomba is now well documented on sites like YouTube, and a few ethnographic documentary films. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Plena">Plena</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Plena"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Plena" title="Plena"><i>Plena</i></a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rican_G%C3%BCiro.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rican_G%C3%BCiro.jpg/200px-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rican_G%C3%BCiro.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rican_G%C3%BCiro.jpg/300px-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rican_G%C3%BCiro.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rican_G%C3%BCiro.jpg/400px-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Puerto_Rican_G%C3%BCiro.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3399" data-file-height="3903" /></a><figcaption>Puerto Rican Güiro</figcaption></figure> <p>Around 1900 <a href="/wiki/Plena" title="Plena">plena</a> emerged as a humble proletarian folk genre in the lower-class, largely <a href="/wiki/Afro-Puerto_Rican" class="mw-redirect" title="Afro-Puerto Rican">Afro-Puerto Rican</a> urban neighborhoods in San Juan, Ponce, and elsewhere. Plena subsequently came to occupy its niche in island music culture. In its quintessential form, plena is an informal, unpretentious, simple folk-song genre, in which alternating verses and refrains are sung to the accompaniment of round, often homemade frame drums called <i><a href="/wiki/Pandereta_plenera" title="Pandereta plenera">panderetas</a></i> (like tambourines without jingles), perhaps supplemented by accordion, guitar, or whatever other instruments might be handy. An advantage of the percussion arrangement is its portability, contributing to the plena's spontaneous appearance at social gatherings. Other instruments commonly heard in plena music are the <a href="/wiki/Cuatro_(instrument)" title="Cuatro (instrument)">cuatro</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Maraca" title="Maraca">maracas</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Accordion" title="Accordion">accordions</a>. </p><p>The plena rhythm is a simple duple pattern, although a lead pandereta player might add lively syncopations. Plena melodies tend to have an unpretentious, "folksy" simplicity. Some early plena verses commented on barrio anecdotes, such as "Cortarón a Elena" (They stabbed Elena) or "Allí vienen las maquinas" (Here come the firetrucks). Many had a decidedly irreverent and satirical flavor, such as "Llegó el obispo" mocking a visiting bishop. Some plenas, such as "Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres" and "Santa María," are familiar throughout the island. In 1935 the essayist <a href="/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Blanco_(writer)" title="Tomás Blanco (writer)">Tomás Blanco</a> celebrated plena—rather than the outdated and elitist danza—as an expression of the island's fundamentally creole, Taino or mulatto racial and cultural character. Plenas are still commonly performed in various contexts; a group of friends attending a parade or festival may bring a few panderetas and burst into song, or new words will be fitted to the familiar tunes by protesting students or striking workers which have long been a regular form of protest from occupation and slavery. While enthusiasts might on occasion dance to a plena, plena is not characteristically oriented toward dance. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:An_accordion_player_in_Old_San_Juan,_Puerto_Rico.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/An_accordion_player_in_Old_San_Juan%2C_Puerto_Rico.jpg/220px-An_accordion_player_in_Old_San_Juan%2C_Puerto_Rico.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/An_accordion_player_in_Old_San_Juan%2C_Puerto_Rico.jpg/330px-An_accordion_player_in_Old_San_Juan%2C_Puerto_Rico.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/An_accordion_player_in_Old_San_Juan%2C_Puerto_Rico.jpg/440px-An_accordion_player_in_Old_San_Juan%2C_Puerto_Rico.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2832" data-file-height="2023" /></a><figcaption>Old man playing the accordion in Old San Juan</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 1920s–30s plenas came to be commercially recorded, especially by <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Jim%C3%A9nez_(musician)" title="Manuel Jiménez (musician)">Manuel "El Canario" Jimenez</a>, who performed old and new songs, supplementing the traditional instruments with piano and horn arrangements. In the 1940s <a href="/wiki/Cesar_Concepci%C3%B3n" class="mw-redirect" title="Cesar Concepción">Cesar Concepción</a> popularized a big-band version of plena, lending the genre a new prestige, to some extent at the expense of its proletarian vigor and sauciness. In the 1950s a newly invigorated plena emerged as performed by the smaller band of <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Cortijo" title="Rafael Cortijo">Rafael Cortijo</a> and vocalist <a href="/wiki/Ismael_Rivera" title="Ismael Rivera">Ismael "Maelo" Rivera</a>, attaining unprecedented popularity and modernizing the plena while recapturing its earthy vitality. Many of Cortijo's plenas present colorful and evocative vignettes of barrio life and lent a new sort of recognition to the dynamic contribution of Afro-Puerto Ricans to the island's culture (and especially music). This period represented the apogee of plena's popularity as a commercial popular music. Unfortunately, Rivera spent much of the 1960s in prison, and the group never regained its former vigor. Nevertheless, the extraordinarily massive turnout for Cortijo's funeral in 1981 reflected the beloved singer's enduring popularity. By then, however, plena's popularity had been replaced by that of salsa, although some revivalist groups, such as <a href="/wiki/Plena_Libre" title="Plena Libre">Plena Libre</a>, continue to perform in their lively fashion, while "street" plena is also heard on various occasions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Danza">Danza</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Danza"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Danza" title="Danza">Danza</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="clear: center; float:none;margin:auto"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External audio</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may listen to <a href="/wiki/Graciela_Rivera" title="Graciela Rivera">Graciela Rivera</a>'s interpretation of Fernández Juncos' version of <b>"<i>La Borinqueña</i></b><i>"</i>" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfQYiMbwnU0"><b>here</b></a>.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may listen to <a href="/wiki/Luciano_Qui%C3%B1ones" title="Luciano Quiñones">Luciano Quiñones</a> piano interpretation of Tavárez's <b>"<i>Margarita</i></b><i>"</i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ladanza.com/margarit.htm"><b>here</b></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may listen to <a href="/wiki/Luciano_Qui%C3%B1ones" title="Luciano Quiñones">Luciano Quiñones</a> piano interpretation of Morel Campos' <b>"<i>No me toques</i></b><i>"</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ladanza.com/notoquep.htm"><b>here</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Manuel_Gregorio_Tavarez.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Manuel_Gregorio_Tavarez.jpg/110px-Manuel_Gregorio_Tavarez.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Manuel_Gregorio_Tavarez.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="130" data-file-height="159" /></a><figcaption>Manuel Gregorio Tavárez</figcaption></figure> <p>By the late 1700s, the country dance (French contredanse, Spanish <a href="/wiki/Contradanza" title="Contradanza">contradanza</a>) had come to thrive as a popular recreational dance, both in courtly and festive vernacular forms, throughout much of Europe, replacing dances such as the minuet. By 1800 a creolized form of the genre, called contradanza, was thriving in Cuba, and the genre also appears to have been extant, in similar vernacular forms, in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and elsewhere, although documentation is scanty. By the 1850s, the Cuban contradanza—increasingly referred to as <a href="/wiki/Danza" title="Danza">danza</a>—was flourishing both as a salon piano piece, or as a dance-band item to accompany social dancing, in a style evolving from collective figure dancing (like a square dance) to independent couples dancing ballroom-style (like a waltz, but in duple rather than ternary rhythm). According to local chroniclers, in 1845 a ship arrived from Havana, bearing, among other things, a party of youths who popularized a new style of contradanza/danza, confusingly called "merengue." This style subsequently became wildly popular in Puerto Rico, to the extent that in 1848 it was banned by the priggish Spanish governor <a href="/wiki/Juan_de_la_Pezuela_y_Cevallos" title="Juan de la Pezuela y Cevallos">Juan de la Pezuela y Cevallos</a>. This prohibition, however, does not seem to have had much lasting effect, and the newly invigorated genre—now more commonly referred to as "danza"—went on to flourish in distinctly local forms. As in Cuba, these forms included the pieces of music played by dance ensembles as well as sophisticated light-classical items for solo piano (some of which could subsequently be interpreted by dance bands). The danza as a solo piano idiom reached its greatest heights in the music of <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Gregorio_Tav%C3%A1rez" title="Manuel Gregorio Tavárez">Manuel Gregorio Tavárez</a> (1843–83), whose compositions have a grace and grandeur closely resembling the music of Chopin, his model. Achieving greater popularity were the numerous danzas of his follower, <a href="/wiki/Juan_Morel_Campos" title="Juan Morel Campos">Juan Morel Campos</a> (1857–96), a bandleader and extraordinarily prolific composer who, like <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Gregorio_Tav%C3%A1rez" title="Manuel Gregorio Tavárez">Tavárez</a>, died in his youthful prime (but not before having composed over 300 danzas). By <a href="/wiki/Juan_Morel_Campos" title="Juan Morel Campos">Morel Campos</a>' time, the Puerto Rican Danza had evolved into a form quite distinct from that of its Cuban (not to mention European) counterparts. Particularly distinctive was its form consisting of an initial <i>paseo</i>, followed by two or three sections (sometimes called "merengues"), which might feature an arpeggio-laden "obbligato" melody played on the tuba-like <i>bombardino</i> (<a href="/wiki/Euphonium" title="Euphonium">euphonium</a>). Many danzas achieved island-wide popularity, including the piece "<a href="/wiki/La_Borinque%C3%B1a" title="La Borinqueña">La Borinqueña</a>", which is the national anthem of Puerto Rico. Like other Caribbean creole genres such as the Cuban danzón, the danzas featured the insistent ostinato called "cinquillo" (roughly, ONE-two-THREE-FOUR-five-SIX-SEVEN-eight, repeated). </p><p>The danza remained vital until the 1920s, but after that decade its appeal came to be limited to the Hispanophilic elite. The danzas of <a href="/wiki/Juan_Morel_Campos" title="Juan Morel Campos">Morel Campos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Gregorio_Tav%C3%A1rez" title="Manuel Gregorio Tavárez">Tavárez</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ignacio_Quint%C3%B3n" title="José Ignacio Quintón">José Quintón</a>, and a few others are still performed and heard on various occasions, and a few more recent composers have penned their idiosyncratic forms of danzas, but the genre is no longer a popular social dance idiom. During the first part of the dancing danza, to the steady tempo of the music, the couples promenade around the room; during the second, with a lively rhythm, they dance in a closed ballroom position and the orchestra would begin by leading dancers in a "paseo," an elegant walk around the ballroom, allowing gentlemen to show off their lady's grace and beauty. This romantic introduction ended with a salute by the gentlemen and a curtsey from the ladies in reply. Then, the orchestra would strike up and the couples would dance freely around the ballroom to the rhythm of the music.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Puerto_Rican_Pop_and_New_Wave">Puerto Rican Pop and New Wave</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Puerto Rican Pop and New Wave"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Much music in Puerto Rico falls outside the standard categories of "Latin music" and is better regarded as constituting varieties of "Latin world pop." This category includes, for example, <a href="/wiki/Ricky_Martin" title="Ricky Martin">Ricky Martin</a> (who had a #1 Hot 100 hit in the U.S. with "<a href="/wiki/Livin%27_La_Vida_Loca" class="mw-redirect" title="Livin' La Vida Loca">Livin' La Vida Loca</a>" in 1999), the boy-band <a href="/wiki/Menudo_(band)" class="mw-redirect" title="Menudo (band)">Menudo</a> (with its changing personnel of which Martin was once a member of), <a href="/wiki/Los_Chicos" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Chicos">Los Chicos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Las_Cheris" title="Las Cheris">Las Cheris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salsa_Kids" title="Salsa Kids">Salsa Kids</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chayanne" title="Chayanne">Chayanne</a>. Famous singers include the Despacito singer <a href="/wiki/Luis_Fonsi" title="Luis Fonsi">Luis Fonsi</a>. Also, singer and virtuoso guitarist <a href="/wiki/Jose_Feliciano" class="mw-redirect" title="Jose Feliciano">Jose Feliciano</a> born in <a href="/wiki/Lares,_Puerto_Rico" title="Lares, Puerto Rico">Lares, Puerto Rico</a>, became a world pop star in 1968 when his Latin-soul version of "<a href="/wiki/Light_My_Fire" title="Light My Fire">Light My Fire</a>" and the <a href="/wiki/LP_record" title="LP record">LP</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Feliciano!" title="Feliciano!">Feliciano!</a></i> became great successes in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> and international rankings and allowed Feliciano to be the first Puerto Rican to win Grammy awards, during that year. Feliciano's "<a href="/wiki/Feliz_Navidad_(song)" title="Feliz Navidad (song)">Feliz Navidad</a>" remains one of the most popular Christmas songs. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="clear: center; float:none;margin:auto"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External audio</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may listen to José Feliciano's "<b>Light My Fire</b>" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m8HR9kn1ks"><b>here</b></a>.</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reggaetón_and_Dembow"><span id="Reggaet.C3.B3n_and_Dembow"></span>Reggaetón and Dembow</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Reggaetón and Dembow"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Reggaeton" title="Reggaeton"><i>Reggaetón</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/Dembow" class="mw-redirect" title="Dembow"><i>Dembow</i></a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_reggaeton_musicians#Puerto_Rico" title="List of reggaeton musicians">List of Reggaeton artists</a></div> <p>The roots of <a href="/wiki/Reggaet%C3%B3n" class="mw-redirect" title="Reggaetón">reggaetón</a> lie in the 1980s by Puerto Rican rapper <a href="/wiki/Vico_C" title="Vico C">Vico C</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>. In the early 1990s reggaeton coalesced as a more definitive genre, using the "Dem Bow" riddim derived from a <a href="/wiki/Shabba_Ranks" title="Shabba Ranks">Shabba Ranks</a> song by that name, and further resembling Jamaican <a href="/wiki/Dancehall" title="Dancehall">dancehall</a> in its verses sung in simple tunes and stentorian style, and its emphasis—via lyrics, videos, and artist personas—on partying, dancing, boasting, "bling," and sexuality rather than weighty social commentary. While reggaeton may have commenced as a Spanish-language version of Jamaican dancehall, in the hands of performers like <a href="/wiki/Tego_Calder%C3%B3n" title="Tego Calderón">Tego Calderón</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daddy_Yankee" title="Daddy Yankee">Daddy Yankee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Omar" title="Don Omar">Don Omar</a>, and others, it soon acquired its distinctive flavor and today might be considered the most popular dance music in the Spanish Caribbean, surpassing even salsa.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Reggaet%C3%B3n" class="mw-redirect" title="Reggaetón">Reggaetón</a> is a genre of music, significantly blown up in Puerto Rico and across the world, that combines Latin rhythms, dancehall, and hip-hop and rap music. Reggaetón is frequently affiliated with “<a href="/wiki/Machismo" title="Machismo">machismo</a>” characteristics, strong or aggressive masculine pride. Since women have joined this genre of music they have been underrepresented and have been fighting to change its image.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This inevitably is causing controversy between what the genre was and what it is now. Reggaetón has transformed from being a musical expression with Jamaican and Panamanian roots to being “<a href="/wiki/Dembow" class="mw-redirect" title="Dembow">dembow</a>” a newer style that has changed the game,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is listened to mainly in the Dominican Republic. Despite its success, its constant reputation highlights sexuality in the dancing, its explicit lyrics that have women screaming sexualized phrases in the background, and the clothing women are presented in. In the '90s and early 2000s, Reggaetón had been targeted and censored in many Latin American countries for its vulgar and course nature<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. Censorship can be seen as the government's way of suppressing the people and ensuring that communication is not strong amongst the community<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. Since then, many women have joined Reggaetón in hopes of changing preconceptions. Many of them have paved the way and have successful careers such as the female trailblazer herself <a href="/wiki/Ivy_Queen" title="Ivy Queen">Ivy Queen</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Karol_G" title="Karol G">Karol G</a>, <a href="/wiki/Becky_G" title="Becky G">Becky G</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rosal%C3%ADa" title="Rosalía">Rosalia</a> among others. With strong influences from Puerto Rico and Jamaica, dembow originates from the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>. When <a href="/wiki/Shabba_Ranks" title="Shabba Ranks">Shabba Ranks</a> released the track "<a href="/wiki/Dem_Bow" title="Dem Bow">Dem Bow</a>" in 1990, the name stuck and it did not take long for the dembow genre to form. The main elements of dembow music are its repetitive rhythm, which is somewhat reminiscent of <a href="/wiki/Reggaeton" title="Reggaeton">reggaeton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dancehall" title="Dancehall">dancehall</a> music, but faster. <a href="/wiki/Riddim" title="Riddim">Riddims</a> were built from the song and the sound became a popular part of <a href="/wiki/Reggaeton" title="Reggaeton">reggaeton</a>. The rhythm and melodies in dembow music tends to be simple and repetitive.<sup id="cite_ref-El_dembow:_el_sonido_urbano_del_momento_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-El_dembow:_el_sonido_urbano_del_momento-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ivy_Queen,_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Ivy_Queen%2C_2010.jpg/220px-Ivy_Queen%2C_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Ivy_Queen%2C_2010.jpg/330px-Ivy_Queen%2C_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Ivy_Queen%2C_2010.jpg/440px-Ivy_Queen%2C_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1442" data-file-height="1780" /></a><figcaption>Ivy Queen</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Ivy_Queen" title="Ivy Queen">Ivy Queen</a> was born as Martha Ivelisse Pesante on March 4, 1972, in Añasco, Puerto Rico. After writing raps during her youth and competing in the 90’s at an underground nightclub called The Noise, this led to the beginning of her musical career. She is considered as the “Queen of Reggaeton.”<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the beginning of her career, it was very difficult for her to be taken seriously in the reggaeton industry because the genre is seen as misogynistic. After being the first woman to produce hits such as “Quiero Bailar”, “Yo Perreo Sola”, “Pa’ La Cama Voy”, “Te He Querido, Te He Llorado” Ivy Queen gained the respect of women and men alike solidifying her spot as “Queen of Reggaeton”. However, in the past, there had been controversy between herself and reggaetonero/rapper <a href="/wiki/Anuel_AA" title="Anuel AA">Anuel AA</a> regarding her status as “Queen of Reggaeton” being she had not had a hit in years.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also insinuated that his girlfriend, <a href="/wiki/Karol_G" title="Karol G">Karol G</a>, should be the queen of reggaeton. Ivy Queen responded saying her career paved the way for female artists to thrive in this genre.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In reaction to the comments made by her boyfriend Anuel AA, Karol G responded with a video, saying “For <a href="/wiki/Becky_G" title="Becky G">Becky G</a>, Natti Natasha, <a href="/wiki/Anitta_(singer)" title="Anitta (singer)">Anitta</a>, Ivy Queen and all the women who have shown me respect in all my social networks and interviews: I have had the honor of telling them in person how much I admire their work and careers, but we are all worthy of what we have because nobody has given anything to anyone.” She went on to say, “This is a crown, and nobody is not going to give it to them, for what they have done. I am not looking for a degree, I am only looking for the success of my career, as everyone is doing every day. Getting up for the dream. To my boyfriend, I just want to say thank you, because I know what you wanted to say. I am your queen and I am very happy that you see me that big because you do motivate me. All of us are going to do what we like and work for it.”<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ultimately, Anuel AA would make amends with Ivy Queen, and after meeting Ivy Queen, Karol would have Ivy featured on her successful 2021 album “<a href="/wiki/KG0516" title="KG0516">KG0516</a>” on the multi-artist track “Leyendas” (‘Legends’). The track, also featuring <a href="/wiki/Zion" title="Zion">Zion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicky_Jam" title="Nicky Jam">Nicky Jam</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wisin_y_Yandel" class="mw-redirect" title="Wisin y Yandel">Wisin y Yandel</a>, opens with Ivy Queen singing memorable parts of her biggest song to date, “Yo Quiero Bailar” (‘I want to dance’) before Karol joins in. </p><p>Ivy Queen has been an influence on other women like Cardi B and Farina. Even men, such as <a href="/wiki/Bad_Bunny" title="Bad Bunny">Bad Bunny</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have listed her as an influence for their lyrics. Her ability to compete amongst men who dominated Reggaetón gave hope to other women who had similar interests in the music industry. Her influence and dominance in the genre led the way for women to easier break onto the reggaetón scene. She sparked a place for women's empowerment, not just for Puerto Rican women, but for all women who are new to the game.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Karol_G" title="Karol G">Karol G</a> is a Colombian reggaeton singer who has done collaborations with artists such as <a href="/wiki/Bad_Bunny" title="Bad Bunny">Bad Bunny</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anuel_AA" title="Anuel AA">Anuel AA</a> and Colombian reggaeton artists <a href="/wiki/J_Balvin" title="J Balvin">J Balvin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Maluma_(singer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maluma (singer)">Maluma</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout her career, Karol G has had troubles in the industry because reggaeton is a genre that is dominated by males. She recounts how when starting her career she noticed that there were not many opportunities for her in the genre because reggaeton was dominated by male artists.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, Karol G's single "Mi Cama" became very popular and she made a remix with J Balvin and Nicky Jam. The Mi cama remix appeared in the top 10 Hot Latin Songs and number 1 in Latin Airplay charts.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This year she has collaborated with Maluma on her song "Creeme", and with her love interest, Anuel AA, in the song "Culpables". The single, "Culpables" has been in the top 10 Hot Latin Songs for 2 consecutive weeks.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On May 3, 2019, Karol G was able to release her new album called “Ocean”.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Natti_Natasha" title="Natti Natasha">Natti Natasha</a> is a Dominican reggaeton singer who has also joined the reggaeton industry and has listed Ivy Queen as one of her influences for her music.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2017 she made a single called "Criminal" that features reggaeton artist, Ozuna. Her single "Criminal" became very popular on YouTube with more than has 1.5 billion views.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018 Natti Natasha collaborated with Puerto Rican duo, RKM and Ken Y in their single "Tonta". She also later collaborated with Mexican reggaeton artist, Becky G in “Sin Pijama” which made it to the top 10 in Hot Latin songs, Latin Airplay, and Latin Pop Airplay charts.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After all the collaborations that Natti Natasha has done she was able to release her album called illumiNatti on February 15, 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2021, she became engaged and pregnant to her longtime manager, Raphy Pina, the Puerto Rican founder of Pina Records who also manages <a href="/wiki/Daddy_Yankee" title="Daddy Yankee">Daddy Yankee</a>. On May 22, 2021, she gave birth to their daughter. Her fiancé is currently serving a three year, five month sentence for illegal possessions of a firearm. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Caribbean_influences">Caribbean influences</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Caribbean influences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bachata_and_Bachatón"><span id="Bachata_and_Bachat.C3.B3n"></span>Bachata and Bachatón</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Bachata and Bachatón"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Bachata_(music)" title="Bachata (music)"><i>Bachata</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/Bachat%C3%B3n" title="Bachatón"><i>Bachatón</i></a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Bachata_(music)" title="Bachata (music)">Bachata</a> originating in the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>,has received notable recognition in <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> due to its strong cultural ties with the Dominican Republic allowing for a fusion of musical genres. One of the primary influences of early bachata includes <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuban</a> <a href="/wiki/Bolero" title="Bolero">bolero</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuban_son" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuban son">Cuban Son</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">Rock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">Blues</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexican</a> <a href="/wiki/Ranchera" title="Ranchera">Ranchera</a>,<a href="/wiki/Corrido" title="Corrido">Corrido</a> and Dominican <a href="/wiki/Merengue_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Merengue (music)">merengue</a><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The appearance of Dominican styles of music such as bachata and merengue in reggaetón coincided with the arrival in <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> of the Dominican-born production team of <a href="/wiki/Luny_Tunes" title="Luny Tunes">Luny Tunes</a>—although they are not solely credited for this development.<sup id="cite_ref-ReggaetonBook_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReggaetonBook-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2000, they received an opportunity to work in the reggaeton studio of <a href="/wiki/DJ_Nelson" title="DJ Nelson">DJ Nelson</a>. They began to produce a string of successful releases for reggaeton artists including <a href="/wiki/Ivy_Queen" title="Ivy Queen">Ivy Queen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tego_Calder%C3%B3n" title="Tego Calderón">Tego Calderón</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daddy_Yankee" title="Daddy Yankee">Daddy Yankee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ReggaetonBook_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReggaetonBook-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Pa' Que Retozen", one of the first songs to combine bachata and reggaeton appeared on Tego Calderón's highly acclaimed <i><a href="/wiki/El_Abayarde" title="El Abayarde">El Abayarde</a></i> (2002). It features the unmistakable guitar sounds of Dominican bachata—although, it was not produced by Luny Tunes by DJ Joe.<sup id="cite_ref-ReggaetonBook_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReggaetonBook-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Luny Tunes, however, on their debut studio album, <i><a href="/wiki/Mas_Flow_(album)" title="Mas Flow (album)">Mas Flow</a></i> (2003) included a hit by Calderón, "Métele Sazón". It exhibited bachata's signature guitar arpeggios as well as merengue's characteristic piano riffs.<sup id="cite_ref-ReggaetonBook_33-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReggaetonBook-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the initial success of these songs, other artists began to incorporate bachata with reggaeton. Artists such as Ivy Queen began releasing singles that featured bachata's signature guitar sound, slower romantic rhythm, and exaggerated emotional singing style.<sup id="cite_ref-ReggaetonBook_33-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReggaetonBook-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is reflected in the hits "<a href="/wiki/Te_He_Querido,_Te_He_Llorado" title="Te He Querido, Te He Llorado">Te He Querido, Te He Llorado</a>" and "La Mala".<sup id="cite_ref-ReggaetonBook_33-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReggaetonBook-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Daddy Yankee's "<a href="/wiki/Lo_Que_Paso,_Paso" class="mw-redirect" title="Lo Que Paso, Paso">Lo Que Paso, Paso</a>" and <a href="/wiki/Don_Omar" title="Don Omar">Don Omar</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Dile_(Don_Omar_song)" title="Dile (Don Omar song)">Dile</a>" also reflect this. A further use of bachata occurred in 2005 when producers began remixing existing reggaeton with bachata's characteristic guitar sounds marketing it as <i>bachatón</i> defining it as "bachata, but Puerto Rican style".<sup id="cite_ref-ReggaetonBook_33-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReggaetonBook-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Artists from Puerto Rico and/or of Puerto Rican descent that have been known to experiment with bachata and/or <a href="/wiki/Bachat%C3%B3n" title="Bachatón">bachatón</a> includes <a href="/wiki/Tr%C3%A9bol_Clan" title="Trébol Clan">Trébol Clan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daddy_Yankee" title="Daddy Yankee">Daddy Yankee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ivy_Queen" title="Ivy Queen">Ivy Queen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Omar" title="Don Omar">Don Omar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ozuna" title="Ozuna">Ozuna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicky_Jam" title="Nicky Jam">Nicky Jam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Myke_Towers" title="Myke Towers">Myke Towers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bad_Bunny" title="Bad Bunny">Bad Bunny</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romeo_Santos" title="Romeo Santos">Romeo Santos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toby_Love" title="Toby Love">Toby Love</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlos_%26_Alejandra" title="Carlos & Alejandra">Alejandra Feliz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yolandita_Monge" title="Yolandita Monge">Yolandita Monge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonya_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Sonya Cortés">Sonya Cortés</a>, <a href="/wiki/Domenic_Marte" title="Domenic Marte">Domenic Marte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tego_Calder%C3%B3n" title="Tego Calderón">Tego Calderón</a>, <a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_el_Father" title="Héctor el Father">Héctor el Father</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tito_El_Bambino" title="Tito El Bambino">Tito El Bambino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wisin_%26_Yandel" title="Wisin & Yandel">Wisin & Yandel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Angel_%26_Khriz" class="mw-redirect" title="Angel & Khriz">Angel & Khriz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chayanne" title="Chayanne">Chayanne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ricky_Martin" title="Ricky Martin">Ricky Martin</a>, amongst many others.<sup id="cite_ref-ReggaetonBook_33-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReggaetonBook-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bolero">Bolero</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Bolero"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bolero" title="Bolero"><i>Bolero</i></a></div> <p>Although <a href="/wiki/Bolero" title="Bolero">bolero</a> has its origins in Cuba, it had already reached Puerto Rico in the 20th century where it was popularized on the island through the first radio stations in 1915 and was being both enjoyed as well as composed and performed by Puerto Ricans, including such outstanding figures as <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Hern%C3%A1ndez_Mar%C3%ADn" title="Rafael Hernández Marín">Rafael Hernández</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Santos_(singer)" title="Daniel Santos (singer)">Daniel Santos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Flores_(composer)" title="Pedro Flores (composer)">Pedro Flores</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Albino" title="Johnny Albino">Johnny Albino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Odilio_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Odilio González">Odilio González</a>, <a href="/wiki/Noel_Estrada" title="Noel Estrada">Noel Estrada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Feliciano" title="José Feliciano">José Feliciano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trio_Vegabaje%C3%B1o" title="Trio Vegabajeño">Trio Vegabajeño</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tito_Rodr%C3%ADguez" title="Tito Rodríguez">Tito Rodríguez</a>, amongst many others. Similar to the bolero genre in Cuba, the bolero in Puerto Rico is usually combined with other genres of Cuban and Puerto Rican origin, such as <a href="/wiki/Bomba_(Puerto_Rico)" title="Bomba (Puerto Rico)">bomba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Danza" title="Danza">danza</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plena" title="Plena">plena</a>, <a href="#Jíbaro_music">jíbaro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guaracha" title="Guaracha">guaracha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mambo_(music)" title="Mambo (music)">mambo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuban_rumba" title="Cuban rumba">rumba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cha-cha-ch%C3%A1_(music)" title="Cha-cha-chá (music)">cha-cha-cha</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">salsa</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Merengue">Merengue</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Merengue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Merengue_music" title="Merengue music"><i>Merengue</i></a></div> <p>Although <a href="/wiki/Merengue_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Merengue (music)">merengue</a> is a type of music and dance that has its origins and also carries a very strong association with the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>, it became widespread throughout <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_History_and_Spread_of_Merengue_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_History_and_Spread_of_Merengue-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-caribbeantrading.com_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-caribbeantrading.com-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The choreography of the ballroom merengue is a basic side two-step, but with a difficult twist of the hip to the right, which makes it somewhat hard to perform. The two dance partners get into a vals, or waltz-like position. The couple then side steps, known as a Paso de la empalizada or "stick-fence step," followed by either a clockwise or counter-clockwise turn. During all of the dance steps of the ballroom merengue, the couple never separates. The second kind of merengue is called the Figure Meringue or Merengue de Figura. The performing couple makes individual turns without releasing the hands of the partner and still keeping the rhythm of the beat.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Popular merengue performers from Puerto Rico include <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Crespo" title="Elvis Crespo">Elvis Crespo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Olga_Ta%C3%B1%C3%B3n" title="Olga Tañón">Olga Tañón</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gisselle" title="Gisselle">Gisselle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manny_Manuel" title="Manny Manuel">Manny Manuel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grupo_Mania" class="mw-redirect" title="Grupo Mania">Grupo Mania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Limi-T_21" title="Limi-T 21">Limi-T 21</a>, amongst many others.<sup id="cite_ref-The_History_and_Spread_of_Merengue_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_History_and_Spread_of_Merengue-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-caribbeantrading.com_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-caribbeantrading.com-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Merenhouse" title="Merenhouse">Merenhouse</a>, which is a subgenre of merengue that is formed by <a href="/wiki/Rapping" title="Rapping">rapping</a> and includes influences of <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" title="Hip hop music">hip-hop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dancehall" title="Dancehall">dancehall</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Latin_house" title="Latin house">latin house</a> was formed in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> in the late 1980s. <a href="/wiki/Lisa_M" title="Lisa M">Lisa M</a>, who was the first major female Latin rapper that was born and raised in <a href="/wiki/San_Juan,_Puerto_Rico" title="San Juan, Puerto Rico">San Juan, Puerto Rico</a> is often credited for making the first song in the merenhouse genre. Mostly credited on her second album No Lo Derrumbes, which was released in 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-Rivera_Marshall_Hernandez_Radano_2009_p._28_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rivera_Marshall_Hernandez_Radano_2009_p._28-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Guaracha_and_Salsa">Guaracha and Salsa</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Guaracha and Salsa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Guaracha" title="Guaracha"><i>Guaracha</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music"><i>Salsa</i></a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Phoenix-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Tito_Puente_Exhibit-4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Phoenix-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Tito_Puente_Exhibit-4.jpg/300px-Phoenix-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Tito_Puente_Exhibit-4.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Phoenix-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Tito_Puente_Exhibit-4.jpg/450px-Phoenix-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Tito_Puente_Exhibit-4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Phoenix-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Tito_Puente_Exhibit-4.jpg/600px-Phoenix-Phoenix-Musical_Instrument_Museum-Tito_Puente_Exhibit-4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6003" data-file-height="5427" /></a><figcaption>The timbales of Tito Puente on exhibit in the Musical Instruments Museum in Phoenix, AZ</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">Salsa</a> is another genre whose form derived from the Cuban/Puerto Rican melding of the genre, especially Cuban dance music of the 1950s—but which in the 1960s–70s became an international genre, cultivated with special zeal and excellence in Puerto Rico and by Puerto Ricans in New York City. Forms such as the Charanga were hugely popular with Puerto Ricans and <a href="/wiki/Nuyoricans" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuyoricans">Nuyoricans</a> who, in effect, rescued this genre which had been stagnating and limited to only Cuba in the 1960s, giving it new life, new social significance, and many new stylistic innovations. Salsa is the name acquired by the modernized form of Cuban/Puerto Rican-style dance music that was cultivated and rearticulated starting in the late 1960s by Puerto Ricans in New York City and, subsequently, in Puerto Rico and elsewhere. While salsa soon became an international phenomenon, thriving in Colombia, Venezuela, and elsewhere, New York and Puerto Rico remained its two epicenters. Particularly prominent on the island were <a href="/wiki/El_Gran_Combo" class="mw-redirect" title="El Gran Combo">El Gran Combo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonora_Ponce%C3%B1a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sonora Ponceña">Sonora Ponceña</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Willie_Rosario" title="Willie Rosario">Willie Rosario</a>, as well as the more pop-oriented "<a href="/wiki/Salsa_rom%C3%A1ntica" title="Salsa romántica">salsa romántica</a>" stars of the 1980s–90s. (For further information see the entry on "<a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">salsa music</a>.") </p><p>Other popular Nuyorican and Puerto Rican exposers of these genres have been <a href="/wiki/Tito_Puente" title="Tito Puente">Tito Puente</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tito_Rodr%C3%ADguez" title="Tito Rodríguez">Tito Rodríguez</a> (guaracha and bolero singer), pianists <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Palmieri" title="Eddie Palmieri">Eddie Palmieri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richie_Ray" title="Richie Ray">Richie Ray</a> and <a href="/wiki/Papo_Lucca" title="Papo Lucca">Papo Lucca</a>, conguero <a href="/wiki/Ray_Barreto" class="mw-redirect" title="Ray Barreto">Ray Barreto</a>, trombonist and singer <a href="/wiki/Willie_Col%C3%B3n" title="Willie Colón">Willie Colón</a>, and singers <a href="/wiki/La_India" title="La India">La India</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andy_Monta%C3%B1ez" title="Andy Montañez">Andy Montañez</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Cruz" title="Bobby Cruz">Bobby Cruz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheo_Feliciano" title="Cheo Feliciano">Cheo Feliciano</a>, <a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Lavoe" title="Héctor Lavoe">Héctor Lavoe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ismael_Miranda" title="Ismael Miranda">Ismael Miranda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ismael_Rivera" title="Ismael Rivera">Ismael Rivera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tito_Nieves" title="Tito Nieves">Tito Nieves</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pete_%22El_Conde%22_Rodr%C3%ADguez" title="Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez">Pete <i>El Conde</i> Rodríguez</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gilberto_Santa_Rosa" title="Gilberto Santa Rosa">Gilberto Santa Rosa</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reggae_and_Dancehall">Reggae and Dancehall</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Reggae and Dancehall"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Reggae" title="Reggae"><i>Reggae</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/Dancehall" title="Dancehall"><i>Dancehall</i></a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> has had its music scene for both <a href="/wiki/Reggae" title="Reggae">reggae</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dancehall" title="Dancehall">dancehall</a> artists, in addition to the local <a href="/wiki/Reggaeton" title="Reggaeton">reggaetón</a> genre, which had evolved in Puerto Rico primarily through reggae and dancehall influences from <a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Shonda_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shonda-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Local artists and bands such as <a href="/wiki/Cultura_Prof%C3%A9tica" title="Cultura Profética">Cultura Profética</a>, <a href="/wiki/Millo_Torres" title="Millo Torres">Millo Torres y El Tercer Planeta</a>, and Gomba Jahbari have received notable recognition on the island, as well as other reggae and dancehall acts in Puerto Rico. Reggae in Puerto Rico uses elements such as intricate horn arrangements and chord progressions to distinguish it from other styles of reggae, most notably Jamaican reggae. It is also sung primarily in <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> and/or <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, although Puerto Rican reggae can also be sung in other languages as well. Their variation of reggae has also been influenced by other music genres such as <a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">salsa</a>, which originated in Puerto Rico, and <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz music</a> which came from the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, as their local reggae and dancehall musicians like to experiment with other genres and combine them with their style of reggae.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classical_music">Classical music</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Classical music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The island hosts two main orchestras, the <a href="/wiki/Orquesta_Sinf%C3%B3nica_de_Puerto_Rico" class="mw-redirect" title="Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico">Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico</a> and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Puerto Rico. The <a href="/wiki/Casals_Festival" title="Casals Festival">Casals Festival</a> takes place annually in San Juan, attracting classical musicians from around the world. Since the nineteenth century there have been diverse Puerto Rican composers, including Felipe Gutierrez Espinosa, <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Gregorio_Tav%C3%A1rez" title="Manuel Gregorio Tavárez">Manuel Gregorio Tavárez</a>, <a href="/wiki/Juan_Morel_Campos" title="Juan Morel Campos">Juan Morel Campos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ar%C3%ADstides_Chavier_Ar%C3%A9valo" title="Arístides Chavier Arévalo">Aristides Chavier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julio_C._Arteaga" title="Julio C. Arteaga">Julio C. Arteaga</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Braulio_Due%C3%B1o_Col%C3%B3n" title="Braulio Dueño Colón">Braulio Dueño Colón</a>. At the beginning of the 20th century, we find <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ignacio_Quint%C3%B3n" title="José Ignacio Quintón">José Ignacio Quintón</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monserrate_Ferrer" title="Monserrate Ferrer">Monsita Ferrer</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Enrique_Pedreira" title="José Enrique Pedreira">José Enrique Pedreira</a>. Moving to the mid-20th century a new wave of composers appeared, some of them with a significant degree of nationalism. In this group are Amaury Veray, <a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Campos_Parsi" title="Héctor Campos Parsi">Héctor Campos Parsi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Delano" title="Jack Delano">Jack Delano</a> and <a href="/wiki/Luis_Antonio_Ram%C3%ADrez" title="Luis Antonio Ramírez">Luis Antonio Ramírez</a>. With more contemporary languages comes the musical scene of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rafael_Aponte-Led%C3%A9e&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rafael Aponte-Ledée (page does not exist)">Rafael Aponte-Ledée</a> and Luis Manuel Álvarez. From the 1970s on, a fair number of musicians add to the list, and, though, with different styles, they all had an imposing international flavor. <a href="/wiki/Ernesto_Cordero_(musician)" title="Ernesto Cordero (musician)">Ernesto Cordero</a>, Carlos Alberto Vázquez, Alfonso Fuentes, <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Torres-Santos" title="Raymond Torres-Santos">Raymond Torres-Santos</a>, Alberto Rodríguez, <a href="/wiki/William_Ortiz-Alvarado" title="William Ortiz-Alvarado">William Ortiz-Alvarado</a>, José Javier Peña Aguayo, Carlos Carrillo and <a href="/wiki/Roberto_Sierra" title="Roberto Sierra">Roberto Sierra</a> belong to this group. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hip-Hop_and_Rap_music">Hip-Hop and Rap music</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Hip-Hop and Rap music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> As social conditions and <a href="/wiki/Urban_decay" title="Urban decay">urban decay</a> took their toll on the projects in New York City during the 1970s, blacks, and Puerto Ricans were equally affected. As a way of coping with the disarray that was taking place in New York, both Puerto Ricans and blacks worked together to collaborate on rap music that would help express their creative art. As Deborah Pacini Hernandez wrote in her article, "<i>Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music,"</i> many of the ways that blacks and Puerto Ricans coped with their struggles was through, "graffiti, DJing, emceeing, break dancing, and fashion—the cultural elements comprising hip-hop." (56) As hip-hop music rose to prominence, it was clear that Puerto Ricans had an influence on the hip-hop industry, from the break dancing to the sound of the music.</p><blockquote><p>"To speak of Puerto Ricans in rap means to defy the sense of instant amnesia that engulfs popular cultural expression once it is caught up in the logic of commercial representation. It involves sketching in historical contexts and sequences, tracing traditions and antecedents, and recognizing hip-hop to be more and different than the simulated images, poses, and formulas the public discourse of media entertainment tends to reduce it to. The decade and more of hindsight provided by the Puerto Rican involvement shows that, rather than a new musical genre and its accompanying stylistic trappings, rap constitutes a space for the articulation of social experience. From this perspective, what has emerged as “Latin rap” first took shape as an expression of the cultural turf shared, and contended for, by African Americans and Puerto Ricans over their decades as neighbors, coworkers, and “homies” in the inner-city communities." – Juan Flores, Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots and Amnesia<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>Despite the fact that Puerto Ricans had a huge impact on the rise of hip-hop during the late 1970s, they struggled to receive credit as hip-hop was portrayed through the media as a genre that was predominantly black. Instead of switching genres, they had to find other ways to mask their cultural identities. For example, <a href="/wiki/DJ_Charlie_Chase" title="DJ Charlie Chase">DJ Charlie Chase</a> was one of the first Puerto Rican artists to burst onto the scene with his group, <a href="/wiki/The_Cold_Crush_Brothers" title="The Cold Crush Brothers">the Cold Crush Brothers</a>, but was the only person in the original group who was not black. He said that he knew he had to change his name because if he went out to perform as Carlos Mendes, he might not have gotten the credit or attention that he deserved. </p><p>However, rappers such as DJ Charlie Chase set the scene for more mainstream success in the future. Because of the development of Puerto Ricans in hip-hop, artists like <a href="/wiki/Big_Pun" title="Big Pun">Big Pun</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daddy_Yankee" title="Daddy Yankee">Daddy Yankee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fat_Joe" title="Fat Joe">Fat Joe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swizz_Beatz" title="Swizz Beatz">Swizz Beats</a>, <a href="/wiki/Young_M.A" title="Young M.A">Young MA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Calle_13_(band)" title="Calle 13 (band)">Calle 13 (band)</a> have become more successful. <a href="/wiki/Lin-Manuel_Miranda" title="Lin-Manuel Miranda">Lin-Manuel Miranda</a> achieved universal acclaim with his opera-musical <a href="/wiki/Hamilton_(musical)" title="Hamilton (musical)">Hamilton (musical)</a>, which blends rap and classical influences. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dance">Dance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Dance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Artists_in_the_Making.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Artists_in_the_Making.jpg/220px-Artists_in_the_Making.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Artists_in_the_Making.jpg/330px-Artists_in_the_Making.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Artists_in_the_Making.jpg/440px-Artists_in_the_Making.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2184" data-file-height="1747" /></a><figcaption>Puerto Rican children dancing at <a href="/wiki/Plaza_Las_Delicias" title="Plaza Las Delicias">Plaza Las Delicias</a> during the March 2008 <a href="/wiki/Feria_de_Artesanias_de_Ponce" class="mw-redirect" title="Feria de Artesanias de Ponce">Feria de Artesanias de Ponce</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Dance is a performing art related to expressing one's ideas and values. The activity is associated with exercise because of the required movements required to execute specific dance patterns. In Puerto Rico, dance is considered to be a part of the culture that is passed on from generation to generation and practiced at family and community parties and celebrations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical_influences">Historical influences</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Historical influences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:El_Cancionero_de_Borinquen_(page_7_crop).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/El_Cancionero_de_Borinquen_%28page_7_crop%29.jpg/220px-El_Cancionero_de_Borinquen_%28page_7_crop%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/El_Cancionero_de_Borinquen_%28page_7_crop%29.jpg/330px-El_Cancionero_de_Borinquen_%28page_7_crop%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/El_Cancionero_de_Borinquen_%28page_7_crop%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="419" data-file-height="378" /></a><figcaption>Cover of <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">El Cancionero de Borinquen</i></span>, a Puerto Rican song book published in 1846</figcaption></figure> <p>Dance has been influenced by the different cultures of the Taíno natives, the Spaniards, and the African slaves. Since pre-Columbian times, dance has always been part of the culture of Puerto Rico and has evolved according to social and demographic changes. The earliest dances documented by the early historians were the Taíno <i>areyto</i> dances that were chanted by a chorus, set to music, and led by a guide. They practiced storytelling while the guide indicated the steps and songs that were to be repeated until the story was finished. Dances of European origin also became popular among the country folk and the settlers of the central part of the island and rapidly acquired unique features of rhythm, instrumentation, interpretation, and even fashion. </p><p>As the population of the Taíno dwindled, Spanish, African, and, from 1898 on, North American dances appeared on the island and took root and developed in the mountains, on the coast, and in the cities.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the island was taken over by Spain, the music and the dance of Puerto Rico consisted of a combination of harmonious musical styles that are borrowed from Spanish, African, and other European cultures, creating Puerto Rico's signature style of Latin dance.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Salsa"><a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">Salsa</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Salsa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It refers to the mixture of different rhythms composed of different Latin, African, and Caribbean dances. Salsa is said to be first created around the 1960s and became popular in the non-Latino world drastically. The salsa dance is similar to the mambo dance.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Salsa dancing is structured in six-step patterns phrased on 8 counts of the music. The 8 different steps include 6 moves with 2 pauses. The pattern of the dance is 1,2,3 and pause for 4, move for 5,6,7, and pause for 8. The basic steps are (1) the forward and backward: this step consists of two rock steps going in and out of the moves. The second step is known as the basic side dance step, it is similar to the first step except for this step, the moves are towards the side. The side-to-side feels and turns are significant aspects of the salsa dance.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cha_Cha_Chá"><span id="Cha_Cha_Ch.C3.A1"></span>Cha Cha Chá</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Cha Cha Chá"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Cha-cha-cha_(dance)" title="Cha-cha-cha (dance)">Cha Cha Chá</a> dance originated in <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>. The dance revolves around a <a href="/wiki/Common_time" class="mw-redirect" title="Common time">common time</a> rhythm, typically transcribed as "rock step, triple step, and then rock step" or "1,2,3 Cha Cha Chá." The second category is known as the Cha Cha Chá side basic, the most often used basic move of the dance. It is similar to the previous one except for the triple step to the side rather than in place. The third step is known as the "underarm in Cha Cha Chá" and shows how to do the lady's underarm steps to the right. Based on the previous step, men might not struggle, but women must know the exact turning spot. The dance is named after the scraping sounds that are produced by the feet of the dancers.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 May</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Learntodance.com&rft.atitle=Cha+Cha+Dance+Steps+For+Beginners+%E2%80%93+Free+Cha+Cha+Video+Course&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.learntodance.com%2Fonline-ballroom-dance-lessons%2Fcha-cha-dance-steps%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMusic+of+Puerto+Rico" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Barton, Hal. “The challenges of Puerto Rican bomba.” In <i>Caribbean dance from abakuá to zouk</i>, ed. Susanna Sloat. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014.</li> <li>Blanco, Tomás. "Elogio de la plena." In <i>Revista del instituto de cultura puertorriqueña</i> 2, 19792 (from <i>Revista ateneo puertorriqueño</i> 1, 1935).</li> <li>Brau, Salvador. "La danza puertorriqueña." In <i>Ensayos sobre la danza puertorriqueña</i>. San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1977a.</li> <li>Brill, Mark. Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2nd Edition, 2018. Taylor & Francis <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1138053562" title="Special:BookSources/1138053562">1138053562</a></li> <li>Díaz Díaz, Edgardo. 2008. “Danza antillana, conjuntos militares, nacionalismo musical e identidad dominicana: retomando los pasos perdidos del merengue.” Latin American Music Review 29(2): 229–259.</li> <li>Díaz Diaz, Edgardo, and Peter Manuel. “Puerto Rico: The Rise and Fall of the Danza as National Music”. In <i>Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean</i>, edited by Peter Manuel. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.</li> <li>Flores, Juan. <i>Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity</i>. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1993.</li> <li>Flores, Juan. <i>From bomba to hip-hop: Puerto Rican culture and Latino identity</i>. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140625040312/http://www.lasalitacafe.com/paque-lo-sepas/bomba-plena-artists-offer-live-music-puerto-rico/">"Bomba and Plena Artists Offer Live Music in Puerto Rico"</a>. La Salita Cafe. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lasalitacafe.com/paque-lo-sepas/bomba-plena-artists-offer-live-music-puerto-rico/">the original</a> on 25 June 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 June</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Bomba+and+Plena+Artists+Offer+Live+Music+in+Puerto+Rico&rft.pub=La+Salita+Cafe&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lasalitacafe.com%2Fpaque-lo-sepas%2Fbomba-plena-artists-offer-live-music-puerto-rico%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMusic+of+Puerto+Rico" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeymarie1993" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Leymarie" title="Isabelle Leymarie">Leymarie, Isabelle</a> (1993). <i>La salsa et le Latin Jazz</i>. Paris: PUF. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2130453171" title="Special:BookSources/2130453171"><bdi>2130453171</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=La+salsa+et+le+Latin+Jazz&rft.place=Paris&rft.pub=PUF&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=2130453171&rft.aulast=Leymarie&rft.aufirst=Isabelle&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMusic+of+Puerto+Rico" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeymarie1996" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Leymarie" title="Isabelle Leymarie">Leymarie, Isabelle</a> (1996). <i>Du tango au reggae: musiques noires d'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes</i>. Paris: Flammarion. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2082108139" title="Special:BookSources/2082108139"><bdi>2082108139</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Du+tango+au+reggae%3A+musiques+noires+d%27Am%C3%A9rique+latine+et+des+Cara%C3%AFbes&rft.place=Paris&rft.pub=Flammarion&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=2082108139&rft.aulast=Leymarie&rft.aufirst=Isabelle&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMusic+of+Puerto+Rico" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeymarie1997" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Leymarie" title="Isabelle Leymarie">Leymarie, Isabelle</a> (1997). <i>La música latinoaméricana: Ritmos y danzas de un continente</i>. Barcelona: BSA. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/8440677057" title="Special:BookSources/8440677057"><bdi>8440677057</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=La+m%C3%BAsica+latinoam%C3%A9ricana%3A+Ritmos+y+danzas+de+un+continente&rft.place=Barcelona&rft.pub=BSA&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=8440677057&rft.aulast=Leymarie&rft.aufirst=Isabelle&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMusic+of+Puerto+Rico" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeymarie1998" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Leymarie" title="Isabelle Leymarie">Leymarie, Isabelle</a> (1998). <i>Músicas del Caribe</i>. Madrid: Akal. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/8440677057" title="Special:BookSources/8440677057"><bdi>8440677057</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=M%C3%BAsicas+del+Caribe&rft.place=Madrid&rft.pub=Akal&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=8440677057&rft.aulast=Leymarie&rft.aufirst=Isabelle&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMusic+of+Puerto+Rico" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeymarie1998" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Leymarie" title="Isabelle Leymarie">Leymarie, Isabelle</a> (1998). <i>Cuba: La Musique des dieux</i>. Paris: Éditions du Layeur. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2911468163" title="Special:BookSources/2911468163"><bdi>2911468163</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cuba%3A+La+Musique+des+dieux&rft.place=Paris&rft.pub=%C3%89ditions+du+Layeur&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=2911468163&rft.aulast=Leymarie&rft.aufirst=Isabelle&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMusic+of+Puerto+Rico" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeymarie2002" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Leymarie" title="Isabelle Leymarie">Leymarie, Isabelle</a> (2002). <i>Cuban Fire: The Story of Salsa and Latin Jazz</i>. New York: Continuum. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0826455867" title="Special:BookSources/0826455867"><bdi>0826455867</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cuban+Fire%3A+The+Story+of+Salsa+and+Latin+Jazz&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Continuum&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=0826455867&rft.aulast=Leymarie&rft.aufirst=Isabelle&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMusic+of+Puerto+Rico" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeymarie2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Leymarie" title="Isabelle Leymarie">Leymarie, Isabelle</a> (2005). <i>Jazz Latino</i>. Barcelona: Robinbook. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/8496222276" title="Special:BookSources/8496222276"><bdi>8496222276</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jazz+Latino&rft.place=Barcelona&rft.pub=Robinbook&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=8496222276&rft.aulast=Leymarie&rft.aufirst=Isabelle&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMusic+of+Puerto+Rico" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Malavet Vega, Pedro. <i>Historia de la canción popular en Puerto Rico</i> (1493-1898). San Juan, 1992.</li> <li>Manuel, Peter, with Kenneth Bilby and Michael Largey. <i>Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae</i> (2nd edition). Temple University Press, 2006 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-59213-463-7" title="Special:BookSources/1-59213-463-7">1-59213-463-7</a></li> <li>Manuel, Peter, "Puerto Rican Music and Cultural Identity: Creative Appropriation of Cuban Sources from Danza to Salsa," <i>Ethnomusicology</i> 3/2, Spring/Summer 1994, pp. 249–80.</li> <li>Quintero Rivera, Angel. "Ponce, the Danza and the national question: notes toward a sociology of Puerto Rican music." [trans. of 1986] In Vernon Boggs, <i>Salsiology</i>, Greenwood Press, 1992. and in Thompson, Donald, ed., <i>Music in Puerto Rico: A reader’s anthology</i>. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2002.</li> <li>Quintero Rivera, Angel. <i>Salsa, sabor y control: sociología de la música tropical</i>. Mexico City: siglo veintiuno, 1998.</li> <li>Rodríguez Julia, Edgardo. <i>El entierro de Cortijo</i>. San Juan: Ediciones Huracán, 1995.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilan_Stavans" title="Ilan Stavans">Stavans, Ilan</a>, <i>Latin Music: Musicians, Genres, and Themes.</i> ABC-CLIO. 2014. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0313343969" title="Special:BookSources/0313343969">0313343969</a></li> <li>Sweeney, Philip. "Not Quite the 52nd State". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), <i>World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia, and Pacific</i>, pp 481–487. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85828-636-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-85828-636-0">1-85828-636-0</a></li> <li>Thompson, Donald, ed. |title=Music in Puerto Rico: A reader's anthology. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2002.</li> <li>de Thompson, Annie Figueroa, <i>Bibliografía anotada sobre la música en Puerto Rico</i>. San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1977.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Puerto_Rico&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cuatro-pr.org">Puerto Rican Cuatro Project</a> (El Proyecto del cuatro)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081203123425/http://www.sensemaya.net/LaParranda.pdf">La Parranda Puertorriquena: The Music, Symbolism, and Cultural Nationalism of Puerto Rico's Christmas Serenading Tradition</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://soundsandcolours.com/subjects/music/for-the-love-of-puerto-rico-10-great-salsa-tracks-by-boricuas-28354">For The Love of Puerto 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history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_women_in_Puerto_Rico" title="History of women in Puerto Rico">Women's history</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Immigration_to_Puerto_Rico" title="Category:Immigration to Puerto Rico">Immigration</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afro%E2%80%93Puerto_Ricans" title="Afro–Puerto Ricans">African</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico" title="Chinese immigration to Puerto Rico">Chinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corsican_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico" title="Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico">Corsican</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico" title="French immigration to Puerto Rico">French</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico" title="German immigration to Puerto Rico">German</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico" title="Irish immigration to Puerto Rico">Irish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Puerto_Rico" title="History of the Jews in Puerto Rico">Jewish</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Geography of Puerto Rico">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barrios_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Barrios of Puerto Rico">Barrios</a></li> <li>Bays <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%ADa_de_Ponce" title="Bahía de Ponce">Bahía de Ponce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayag%C3%BCez_Bay" title="Mayagüez Bay">Mayagüez Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Juan_Bay" title="San Juan Bay">San Juan Bay</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_beaches_in_Puerto_Rico" title="List of beaches in Puerto Rico">Beaches</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crash_Boat_Beach" title="Crash Boat Beach">Crash Boat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Tuque" title="El Tuque">El Tuque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flamenco_Beach" title="Flamenco Beach">Flamenco</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Puerto_Rico_state_forests" title="List of Puerto Rico state forests">Forests</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rican_dry_forests" title="Puerto Rican dry forests">Dry forests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Yunque_National_Forest" title="El Yunque National Forest">El Yunque National Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toro_Negro_State_Forest" title="Toro Negro State Forest">Toro Negro State Forest</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of islands of Puerto Rico">Islands</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caja_de_Muertos_Island" title="Caja de Muertos Island">Caja de Muertos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desecheo_Island" title="Desecheo Island">Desecheo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isla_de_Cabras" title="Isla de Cabras">Isla de Cabras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isla_de_Mona" title="Isla de Mona">Isla de Mona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Juan_Islet" title="San Juan Islet">Isleta de San Juan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Municipalities of Puerto Rico">Municipalities</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mayag%C3%BCez,_Puerto_Rico" title="Mayagüez, Puerto Rico">Mayagüez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ponce,_Puerto_Rico" title="Ponce, Puerto Rico">Ponce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Juan,_Puerto_Rico" title="San Juan, Puerto Rico">San Juan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico_Trench" title="Puerto Rico Trench">Puerto Rico Trench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of rivers of Puerto Rico">Rivers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%ADo_Grande_de_Arecibo" title="Río Grande de Arecibo">Grande de Arecibo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%ADo_Grande_de_Lo%C3%ADza" title="Río Grande de Loíza">Grande de Loiza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portugu%C3%A9s_River" title="Portugués River">Portugués</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ecology</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_endemic_flora_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of endemic flora of Puerto Rico">Endemic flora</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Fauna of Puerto Rico">Fauna</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_amphibians_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of amphibians of Puerto Rico">Amphibians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of birds of Puerto Rico">Birds</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Vieques" title="List of birds of Vieques">Vieques</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of mammals of Puerto Rico">Mammals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_reptiles_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of reptiles of Puerto Rico">Reptiles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_endemic_fauna_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico">Endemic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elfin_woods_warbler" title="Elfin woods warbler">Elfin woods warbler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_coqu%C3%AD" title="Golden coquí">Golden coquí <span style="font-size:85%;">(frog)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mona_ground_iguana" title="Mona ground iguana">Mona ground iguana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monito_gecko" title="Monito gecko">Monito gecko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhonciscus_pauco" title="Rhonciscus pauco">Opalescent grunt <span style="font-size:85%;">(fish)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rican_amazon" title="Puerto Rican amazon">Puerto Rican amazon <span style="font-size:85%;">(parrot)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anolis_cristatellus" title="Anolis cristatellus">Puerto Rican crested anole <span style="font-size:85%;">(reptile)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bascanichthys_inopinatus" title="Bascanichthys inopinatus">Unexpected snake eel <span style="font-size:85%;">(fish)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Politics of Puerto Rico">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Government of Puerto Rico">Commonwealth <span style="font-size:85%;">(government)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Constitution of Puerto Rico">Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rican_government-debt_crisis" title="Puerto Rican government-debt crisis">Debt crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Governor of Puerto Rico">Governor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independence_movement_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Independence movement in Puerto Rico">Independence movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Law of Puerto Rico">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico">Legislative Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Military of Puerto Rico">Military</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico_Police" title="Puerto Rico Police">Police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Puerto_Rico" title="List of political parties in Puerto Rico">Political parties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Political status of Puerto Rico">Political status</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico_statehood_movement" title="Puerto Rico statehood movement">Statehood movement</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resident_commissioner_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Resident commissioner of Puerto Rico">Resident Commissioner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_congressperson" title="Shadow congressperson">Shadow representation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Supreme Court of Puerto Rico">Supreme Court</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Economy of Puerto Rico">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Agriculture in Puerto Rico">Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">Dollar <span style="font-size:85%;">(currency)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manufacturing_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Manufacturing in Puerto Rico">Manufacturing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Bootstrap" title="Operation Bootstrap">Operation "Bootstrap"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_estate_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Real estate in Puerto Rico">Real estate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Taxation in Puerto Rico">Tax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Telecommunications in Puerto Rico">Telecommunications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Tourism in Puerto Rico">Tourism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Transportation in Puerto Rico">Transport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welfare_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Welfare in Puerto Rico">Welfare</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Society_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Category:Society of Puerto Rico">Society</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Abortion in Puerto Rico">Abortion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Puerto_Rico" 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