Editing Plena (section)

==Origins==
The plena genre originated in [[Barrio San Antón]], [[Ponce, Puerto Rico]],<ref>[http://senado.pr.gov/Proyectos%20del%20Senado/pc1392-ta.pdf ''LEY: Para reconocer al Barrio San Antón, del Municipio de Ponce, como lugar de interés histórico y cultural, y designarlo como “Cuna de la Plena”, y para disponer para la coordinación entre el Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña y el Municipio de Ponce para implementar lo dispuesto en esta Ley, y para la promoción de los valores históricos y culturales de esta comunidad.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128105832/http://senado.pr.gov/Proyectos%20del%20Senado/pc1392-ta.pdf |date=28 January 2017 }} Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. 16ta. Asamblea 1ra. Sesión. Legislativa Ordinaria. Camara de Representatntes. Projecto de la Camara Numero 1392. 24 March 2009. Accessed 1 April 2018.</ref><ref name="garland">{{cite book|title=The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|year=2000|isbn=0-8240-4946-2|page=939|title-link=The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music}}</ref> around 1900.<ref>''La Plena: Nació en Barrio San Antón.'' [[El Mundo (Puerto Rico)|El Mundo]], 23 November 1971. page 23.</ref> It was influenced by the [[Bomba (Puerto Rico)|bomba]] style of music.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} Originally, sung texts were not associated with the plena, which was rendered by guitar, accordion and pandero, but eventually, in 1907,{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} singing was added. Plena was often called the ''periodico cantado''{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} or "sung newspaper" for the lower classes because it spread messages among people, similar to the [[corrido]]s in [[Mexico]].