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# In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance
- URL: https://werd.io/in-argentina-cheap-government-issued-netbooks-sparked-a-musical-renaissance/
- Published: 2021-06-17T16:01:08.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-17T16:01:08.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"More than four million students received a computer between 2011 and 2015\. These were exactly the years that saw the rise of a budding generation of rappers, trappers, and freestylers. The overlap is no coincidence to Sebastián Benítez Larghi, director of the sociology department at the La Plata National University. “The working classes have always had a tradition of cultural creation — urban rhythms are just more proof of that.”"

\[[Link](https://restofworld.org/2021/argentina-netbooks-music/)\]