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As a music writer, I’ve witnessed with exhaustion the revisionist retellings of Latinx music history that have emerged over the years, most recently in headlines announcing a never-before-seen “boom” or “explosion” in Spanish-language music, as if the chart-topping Bad Bunny or J. Balvin hits from recent years were born from the head of Zeus. But those of us who have spent our lives immersed in the world of Latinx music know that despite the Anglo press’s cultural amnesia surrounding Latinx artists, they don’t exist in the shadows; they were and are creating, evolving and recording countless hits for millions of listeners across the world. Latinx music has a rich and propulsive history, and a new, independent exhibition, “Sabor y Ritmo Antillano: N.Y.C. Latin Music Concert Posters of the 1970s & 1980s,” is attempting to unravel a slice of it.

The exhibition, which features more than 25 posters from the holdings of the collector Henry Herrera, was co-curated by two Dominican New Yorkers, Jhensen Ortiz and Wilton Salazar. Ortiz, a librarian who specializes in the preservation of cultural heritage materials, first discovered the posters on eBay.