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Mar 2022
53m 39s

Reggaeton’s Global Expansion and Wide-Op...

The New York Times
About this episode
As the genre grows in worldwide popularity, it is engaging with the pop music mainstream and stratifying into subsets, introducing new opportunities and dilemmas. Guests: Isabelia Herrera and Katelina Eccleston. 
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