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Muévelo

The Enduring Legacy of Latin Music Across Borders

Contributors

By Verónica Bayetti Flores

By Miriam Zoila Pérez

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Aug 18, 2026
Page Count
224 pages
Publisher
Running Press
ISBN-13
9798894140452

Price

$28.00

Price

$37.00 CAD

Latin music fans—from lovers of Bad Bunny to Selena, Juan Gabriel to Villano Antillano, and Romeo Santos to Shakira—will love Muévelo, a compelling look at the impact of Latin music in our lives, culture, and history.

Podcast hosts of Radio Menea, Miriam Zoila Pérez and Verónica Bayetti Flores, explore how Latin music has been shaped by movements of people, culture, and sound across decades of Latin artists and songs. Through collections of essays, playlists, timelines, album deep dives, and more, the authors share their examination of the role and influence that movements, migration, and colonialism, had and have on all types of Latin music genres, from bachata to boleros, to salsa and norteños.

Within these vibrant pages you’ll find song-by-song analysis of significant albums like Selena’s iconic Amor Proihbido, explorations of the places and migrations that have shaped Latin music, timelines explaining the context in which this music lives, and so much more. With profiles of movements and artists as lively and passionate as the music itself, Muévelo is an essential exploration of the music that moves us, both on the dance floor and in life.
 
 


Verónica Bayetti Flores

About the Author

Verónica Bayetti Flores is a queer Venezuelan writer and activist. She has bylines in Rolling StoneCrack Magazine, and Remezcla. She is a co-host of the podcast Radio Menea, and is the co-founder of the Center for Advancing Innovative Policy, an abolitionist grassroots policy firm.

About Radio Menea: Two Latinx friends. Wildly different music tastes. Radio Menea is a Latinx music podcast (no longer currently active but still available) hosted by Verónica Bayetti Flores and Miriam Zoila Pérez. Called “the woke Latinx music podcast you should be listening to” by Remezcla and “the soundtrack to a queer mami’s sancocho” by Latina Magazine, Radio Menea is a bilingual journey through the Latinx music that is the soundtrack to Vero and Pérez’s lives, and probably yours too.

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Miriam Zoila Pérez

About the Author

Miriam Zoila Pérez is a queer Cuban American writer. Their non-fiction writing has appeared in outlets like the New York Times, and anthologies like Roxane Gay’s NYT bestseller Not That Bad. Their TED talk about racism and maternal health has been viewed over a million times. They are the author of the young adult novel Camila Núñez’s Year of Disasters, and co-host of the Radio Menea podcast. Pérez live in Washington, DC and are obsessed with bachata and houseplants in equal measure.

About Radio Menea: Two Latinx friends. Wildly different music tastes. Radio Menea is a Latinx music podcast (no longer currently active but still available) hosted by Verónica Bayetti Flores and Miriam Zoila Pérez. Called “the woke Latinx music podcast you should be listening to” by Remezcla and “the soundtrack to a queer mami’s sancocho” by Latina Magazine, Radio Menea is a bilingual journey through the Latinx music that is the soundtrack to Vero and Pérez’s lives, and probably yours too.

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