Please post, as comments, some of the songs mentioned in the readings (especially the Morales), along with your name, the name of the song or songs and the page number. Make sure no one has already posted the same thing before you. Please have the posts done by Monday at noon. I've put an example below.
A link to Wayne Marshall's transcriptions and sound clips: here.
In case you spent 2004 on another planet or in a coma and didn't get a chance to hear it - Daddy Yankee's "Gasolina"
Here are the the musical elements in this song that Marshall talks about as being linked to various other genres:
"Galloping figures" and "half step harmonic motion" suggesting Spanish pasodoble (bullfighting music), like the venerable "España cañí":
Nasal delivery like certain salsa soneros (singers) - here's an example of the great Hector Lavoe singing "Triste y vacía
The Dem Bow rhythm, featuring "3+3+2" (also known as tresillo), here on the original Shabba Ranks tune.
And the also seminal "Bam Bam" riddim:
Some dancehall tunes, also popular in hip hop circles in the US in the early 90s, which ended up being referenced in early reggaetón:
Chaka Demus and Pliers "Murder She Wrote" (1992)
Cutty Ranks "A Who Seh Me Dun" (1993)
Dirtsman "Hot This Year"
PR underground/melaza/dembow/"proto-reggaetón": Playero 38
On reggaetonero, Tego Calderón, even has a reggaetón song, referencing an Afro-Puero Rican town, that samples the traditional Afro-Puerto Rican drum/dance called bomba:
Nuyorican rapper Big Pun's "Dream Shatterer"
Puerto Rican (from the island) rapper Vico C - an oldie but goodie (with a hilariously old school video) - "Tony Presidio"
El General's "Tu Pum Pum"
Little Lenny "Punnany Tegereg"
Bachata-influenced reggaetón - Wissin y Yandel's "Mayor que yo" has tons of bachata guitar
(If you don't remember, bachata guitar sounds like this:
Making the hurban market: NORE & Nina Sky's "Oye mi canto"
Some more modern Panamanian bultrón/plena/reggae(tón) - Kufu Bantón's "Vamos pa' la playa" ("A pasarla bien con los friends"). Notice the use of R. Kelly's "Thoia Thong" track:
Here's the aforementioned "Thoia Thoing"
The roots reggae and dub influence remains strong in Panamanian reggae - for example in El Rookie's "Grand Error" (although Rookie also sings more reggaetón-styled music)
The easily downloadable computer beat-making program Fruity Loops (now "FL studio"):
Reegaetón has sired mutant offspring all through the world. Here's choque/choke/shoke from western Colombia:
