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What Is 'Latin Music' Anyway?

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Afro-Caribbean Influence on Rock and Roll

I did a show on the afro caribbean influence on the beginning of rock and roll. They didn't really have a name for it back then. And petra tiveta redo says, naming things makes it easier to sell them. What she refers to as this larger historical pattern of systemic racism in the music industry that cannot be divorced from capitalism. This kind of homogenization of musical styles is not unique to latin music.

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