contemporary art exhibition explores the evolution and spiritual roots of what are arguably the Caribbean's 2 most popular music genres.

>> Dance hall and reggaeton.

It's a showcase that can move you both emotionally and physically as it takes you through the history reporter Joanna Hernandez has more.

>> It's a participatory space in the beginning.

I really wanted to do a lot.

I dream was like I went to a club in the museum in that because this feels like a cause this is the closest I got 2 o'clock and got a lot settle.

Yates is a curator of a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art called Dancing The Revolution from Dance Hall to take it We are sitting on a artwork by blue Curry and that there's other art work site you consent so people can actually have conversations from the moment you step into the exhibition.

You met with speakers, photographs, artwork in video installations showing the evolution in spirit of dance culture, both hall and pay it our musical genre has come from working class communities, marginalized communities.

Her passion to explore this topic sparked from the protests that erupted in Puerto Rico in the summer of 2019.

It's about how we hold these different contradictions from Mike Joy to green celebration and struggling with systems are not incompatible that we can pay its own protest in the streets to demand the ousting of a governor.

>> And we can also go to party and dance and those things I think come together in a really potent its way through pictures and art installations.

The exhibit takes people on a journey beginning in Jamaica.

Exploring practice is rooted in black Atlantic.

>> And it's a volusia of expression.

>> One thing that important to understand is that lineage of protest in the Caribbean has always included music and dance.

So has a very different lineage and the United States or Europe, for example.

So going back to Jamaica, specially taking sand.

I started to do research on dance hall, but also on sound system.

Culture, which is really where these musical genre spark creativity, things stand.

>> Each room tells a story of how the beets we love emerge through.

Sounds found across the Caribbean, including Panama.

>> Okay.

And minus started because of the pandemic.

And now a geopolitical moment when West Indian workers and Jamaican workers were brought to Panama to construct the pandemic.

now and with them, they've got the records and with the records they started singing on the instrumental besides and started translating the lyrics from English to Spanish.

And I think that is such a fascinating way to think about music has migration story.

is a personal project that of the settled Gates as Re connects her to her upbringing in remember that I had a mix tape that was a copy of a mix tape.

That was a copy of another tape.

So I grew up with this music and at the time was criminalized by the governor by and Europe.

>> From its underground route they get on has evolved into a global phenomenon.

>> With generations of artists paving the way for stars like Bad bunny.

His work is very political.

And I think that he carries the voices.

And the spirit, the social and political histories.

He's giving voice to that.

And also carrying that message to a global audience.

>> More than 42 artist are part of the showcase a vision that took 3 years to come to life.

>> One of main takeaways, I want people to go with is that it's on us, not just entertainment.

It is.

you have to really be social political and spiritual history that dates back to the Colonial era.

>> For Chicago tonight, I'm joined on this.

>> The exhibition runs at the Museum of Contemporary Art until September.

20th, Illinois residents get free entry on Tuesdays when the museum also hosts a karaoke night.

We're back right after this.

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