I then address their own construction of Blackness, what I refer to as “spiritual Blackness,” and how they believe it diverges from Afro-Boricua/Black Puerto Rican identity. In the final section, I ...

“DtMf” is performed in the Afro-Puerto Rican folk music style of plena, a genre that most non-Puerto Ricans are not familiar with. While well-known among Puerto Ricans and a mainstay at Puerto ...

He's pulling on traditional sounds like the jarabe, which is folk music from the campo, historic Afro Puerto ... music that made him famous, and other contemporary Puerto Rican sounds.

But no matter how famous he gets, the focus of his music ... which is folk music from the campo, historic Afro Puerto Rican bomba y plena protest music and Nuyorican diasporic salsa.