"Hip Hop," The Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music
Greenwood / ABC-Clio LLC Publi
"Hip Hop," The Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music Greenwood / ABC-Clio LLC Publishers, 2013 Latin American hip-hop, a recent addition to transnational Latin popular musics (e.g., salsa, merengue, samba), has been influential as a subculture since the early 1980s, predominantly among dispossessed youth. Rapping has been incorporated into Cuban salsa and timba, and given rise to fusions like reggaetón, Dominican merenrap, Colombian cumbia-rap, and Brazilian embolada-r
