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The Music of Puerto Rico has evolved as a heterogeneous and dynamic product of diverse cultural resources. The most conspicuous musical sources of Puerto Rico have primarily included European, Indigenous, and African influences, although many aspects of Puerto Rican music reflect origins elsewhere in the Caribbean. Puerto Rican music culture today comprises a wide and rich variety of genres, ranging from essentially native genres such as bomba, danza, and plena to more recent hybrid genres such as salsa, Latin trap and reggaeton. Broadly conceived, the realm of "Puerto Rican music" should naturally comprise the music culture of the millions of people of Puerto Rican descent who have lived in the United States, especially in New York City. Their music, from salsa to the boleros of Rafael Hernández, cannot be separated from the music culture of Puerto Rico itself.
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- 1 2 The Grove Dictionary of American Music. OUP USA. January 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-531428-1.
- ↑ "Monsita Ferrer". www.ladanza.com. Retrieved Mar 30, 2019.
- ↑ Martha Furman Schleifer; Gary Galván (28 January 2016). Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 208–. ISBN 978-0-8108-8871-5.
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