Reggaeton

One of Marshall's most effective ways of proving his argument is showing a thread of comments between active members in the online reggaeton community--they each expressed thoughts on its origins, who can take claim to reggaeton, who does it best, and who deserves to listen to it. Marshall writes, "as a mainstream, pan-Latino genre, reggaeton still serves to draw all kinds of lines between social groups, reflecting significant underlying conflicts and incompatible ideologies of self and other. Given what can seem a tumultuous redefinition of social relationships in the wake of new migrations amidst competing projects of national and transnational (not to mention local) unity, it is of little surprise that there is so much heated debate about what reggaeton is and to whom it belongs."

Do you feel like this happens in any other genre? I feel as if the origins of many musical cultures (metal, hip-hop, etc.) are unknown, and yet no one argues over where it comes from. Is this strictly because these genres do nothing for cultural unity currently, or do you think that it has to do with reggaeton being fairly "new?"