A host of fusions between the two genres arrived this year, with implications for both the underground and the mainstream. By Isabelia Herrera It takes nerve to stretch the boundaries of reggaeton, a ...

From the Lambada to Livin' la Vida Loca, American pop music is dotted with hotly hyped Latin crossover successes that were supposed to remake the mainstream in their multicultural image. Is reggaeton ...

I first heard the infectious dembow rhythm that undergirds every reggaeton song at my eighth-grade back-to-school dance. A mosh pit of suburban teens was trying in earnest to move their hips to the ...

At the Rumba Room, a two-story nightclub at Universal CityWalk that draws a young Latino crowd, the entertainment is segregated. Downstairs, dancers groove mostly to a mix of salsa, cumbia and ...

Maidel “La Sista” Canales vividly recalls the “reggaeton fever” of the Nineties. At 16, Canales and her brother, four years her senior, formed the rap duo “Los Brothers,” performing in the streets of ...

In Madrid’s downtown area, a classical manor with a salmon-colored façade and marbled walls from the 19th century looms large. At the base of its 40-foot pediment, a sign reads: “Real Academia ...