Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity

Klappentext
Merengue is a quintessential Dominican dance music. This work aims to unravel the African and Iberian roots of merengue. It examines the historical and contemporary contexts in which merengue is performed and danced, its symbolic significance, its social functions, and its musical and choreographic structures.

Inhalt
Foreword Robert Farris Thompson Preface 1. Introduction Part I: The History of Merengue, 1854-1961 2. Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Merengue 3. Merengue Cibaeno, Cultural Nationalism, and Resistance 4. Music and the State: Merengue during the Era of Trujillo, 1930-1961 Part II: The Contemporary Era, 1961-1995 5. Merengue in the Transnational community 6. Innovation and Social Issues in Pop Merengue 7. Merengue on the Global Stage 8. Enduring Localism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Interviews Index

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