Talk:Music of Puerto Rico
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This article is probably one of the most poorly written I have seen in Wikipedia. I focused on the salsa section for a cleanup. Please, those who are experts in other areas help make this a better page with more information; there is a lot more to be said about the music of PR. The section on Salsa music contains a number of inaccuracies, including the assertion that Johnny Pacheco is Puerto Rican (he is Dominican), that Tito Puente was a "Salsa" musician (he hated the term, and is known more for his great talent in mambo and Latin jazz), and such nonsense as cowbells are used in salsa to give it "that authentic Jibaro" sound. While the author may have been a salsa lover and had good intentions, it appears he/she knows practically nothing about it or Jibaro music. Furthermore, salsa is described as Puerto Rican music from New York. It is common knowledge, and even detailed at length on the main salsa page, that salsa is essentially Cuban music. Puerto Ricans have contributed greatly to the genre and even took great pride in taking ownership of it and adding their styles, but that does not change where it came from or make it part of a new Puerto Rican or Nuyorican genre of music, and that should be noted in any article purporting to be part of an encyclopedia.
>>> OK, my corrections are a continuing project. I have again focused on the salsa section for its blatant errors. The previous author spoke of antagonism between "rockers" and "salseros" on the island. I find that this argument is a bit antiquated and has diminished in light of the reggaeton phenomenon of the past few years. We still have rockers and such, but salsa is on the down. Regardless, the salsa section is a bit useless considering the main and detailed article. Also, the needlss observations about salsa from San Juan and New York has no relevance in light of the larger genre of salsa music. Were salsa a genre confined to those two cities, then the argument would be relevant. As it stands, salsa in Colombia, Cuba, the US, PR, etc. enjoy great popularity among many different groups. The previous author is too PR centric on a subsection that is not native to the Isla del Encanto (PR). This seems to be a recuring problem in the article...merengue was previously described a great length in this article even though it is Dominican music.--Noopinonada 05:16, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
