Reggaeton, art and culture among Peruvian teenagers

Abstract

Reggaeton is a musical genre that entered Peru in the nineties and has had an underhanded presence in adolescents who dance to it for its sensuality and eroticism, this musical genre, in its origins was associated with a countercultural movement that was involved in a criminal world in which murders were committed by settling scores, committed in drug trafficking, sex trade, sexual abuse against teenage girls, derogatory treatment of women considering them as objects of pleasure, and in this context, the male stands as the predominant male, with luxuries and other external signs of wealth, surrounded by exuberant and young women. This is not the Peruvian context and, therefore, explains the low presence of this genre. This research was conducted on reggaeton and its relationship with the art and culture competencies of adolescents in the last grade of basic education aged 16 to 18 years, with a mixed approach, with a quantitative sample of 330 adolescents and a qualitative sample of eight; the instruments were two questionnaires and an in-depth interview, for the treatment statistics and content analysis were used; the quantitative results show a direct, moderate and significant relationship between reggaeton and art and culture competencies (r = ,573 and p. = ,000) while the results of the qualitative interview reveal that the musical genre reggaeton did not exert any influence on the sample given the solid formation of values cultivated at home, school and community, so that the art and culture competency was achieved, so it was concluded that there is a moderate relationship between reggaeton, art and culture which have not changed the value structure of adolescents. It is recommended that in future research, geographic areas with a high presence of delinquency and drug use be chosen and that the ethnographic or ethnomethodological qualitative method be used for a better understanding of the topic.