Thursday, March 30, 2017

How Reggaetón Exploded All Over Cuba Without the Internet | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/lisette-poole-reggaeton/

YOU CAN'T VISIT Cuba and not hear reggaetón. The eclectic mix of salsa, hip-hop and electronica blasts from shops, cars and bike taxis. And despite government censorship and limited internet access, the genre exploded in popularity thanks to "el paquete," a grassroots distribution system that relies on nothing more than hard drives, thumb drives, and old-fashioned hand delivery.

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