Plena<\/a>, we need to keep in mind that it occurred in Puerto Rico as well as in New York almost simultaneously. Like in other music Latin American genres, there are the traditionalist and the evolutionists.<\/p>\nThe traditionalists argue that the genre will only survive if we keep it as it was originally conceived. Keep the root intact, they argue.<\/p>\n
The evolutionists make the case that all genres need to evolve in order to stay relevant with the new generation of music fans. Evolve or die, they argue.<\/p>\n
I’ll get into that and some of the contemporary artists keep the flame alive in Part 3 of this blog series.<\/p>\n
All that said, I’m grateful that Ms. Du Graf and the New York Times highlighted this aspect of our Puerto Rican and Latin American culture.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned!<\/p>\n
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A recent New York Times article highlighted the resurgence of the folk Puerto Rican rhythm of Bomba. The NYT article “Bomba: The Enduring Anthem of Puerto Rico” is a well-intention piece on the renaissance of this once dormant folk genre. However, the limited research done by writer Lauren Du Graf does show in some parts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1127],"tags":[258,904,259,1138],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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