5 De Los stories you should read: Jan Wenner's gatekeeping and Latin Grammy snubs for corridos tumbados
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In this week’s Latinx Files, Fidel Martínez dived into the controversial topic, explaining that the issue of gatekeeping, in this case specifically in music, is a problem that the industry needs to tackle. It didn’t help that contemporary Bob Guccione Jr., formerly of Spin magazine, defended Wenner.If you haven’t noticed the huge boom in corridos tumbados over the last year, then you were probably living under a rock or are a Latin Grammy voter.
A recent study by the Pew Institute found some interesting details around Spanish usage and the cultural marker the language places on U.S. Latinos. As with most every study around Latinos, it is another indication that we are not a monolithic group.