Event
Exhibition «Tupumpum. Genealogy of Reggaeton»
At La Casa Encendida, reggaeton is broken down into the routes along which it travelled between islands, buses and recording studios.
About this event
From 8 to 31 May, La Casa Encendida hosts an exhibition on reggaeton that shows its evolution not through well-known tracks, but through the routes along which it spread.
The exhibition is structured around a mural installation with material from Fundación Gladys Palmera, which has curated the project. The recordings and sound archives help trace the genre's journey from Jamaican sound systems and pirated tapes on Panamanian buses to Puerto Rico, where it faced bans, and then to the United States, where it arrived alongside Latin American migration.
Reggaeton is presented here as a chain of movements between countries, recording technologies and different urban environments.
The foundation consists of materials from the Gladys Palmera collection, one of the largest music archives in Latin America. Through them, the exhibition shows how the genre has changed alongside social conditions and the ways music is disseminated.