"Reggaeton is a relatively new genre of dance music that has become popular around the world in the last decade. The name is derived from the reggae music of Jamaica which was then developed in Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Colombia. Reggaeton has been heavily influenced by the urban hip-hop music craze in the United States.
The variety of musical influences on the development of reggaeton led one observer (James Farber of the NY Daily News) to call it a "cultural polyglot".As is the case with hip-hop music in the United States, reggaeton appeals primarily to youths. In Puerto Rico, youths were inspired to create reggaeton, after hearing Panamanian artists performing raps in Spanish styled after Jamaican dance-hall raps, adding native bomba and salsa, rhythms."
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