Merengue And Dominican Identity

Author : Paul Austerlitz
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1566394848
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merengue written by Paul Austerlitz and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Julie A. Sellers
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786418152
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merengue and Dominican Identity written by Julie A. Sellers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The merengue is internationally recognized as the Dominican Republic's national dance. It is an integral and unifying element of Dominican identity both within that nation and among emigrants abroad. Although Dominicans often make the claim that merengue has always been in their blood, the dance is relatively young, and its popularity among Dominicans of all social classes and ages is an even more recent occurrence. This book presents three convincing arguments about the merengue's longevity as a unifying symbol of Dominican identity: Dominican identity and the merengue have necessarily been extremely fluid in order to encompass the different cultural and ethnic groups present; historically, the merengue has become a stronger identity symbol when the nation is or is perceived to be threatened from outside; and the white, Catholic, Hispanic Dominican has long been held as the "true" Dominican identity, causing the dance to become progressively "whitened" in terms of performers and style to reflect this notion and gain wider appeal at home and abroad. A map of the Dominican Republic, related photographs of key figures of Dominican history and merengue artists across the decades, and a complete bibliography are included.

Author : Julie A. Sellers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Our Blood written by Julie A. Sellers and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deborah Pacini Hernandez
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566393003
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bachata written by Deborah Pacini Hernandez and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining Bachata -- Music and Dictatorship -- The Birth of Bachata -- Power, Representation, and Identity -- Love, Sex, and Gender -- From the Margins to the Mainstream -- Conclusions.

Author : Julie A. Sellers
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786476737
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bachata and Dominican Identity / La bachata y la identidad dominicana written by Julie A. Sellers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachata--a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo's urban shantytowns in the 1960s--is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the social stigma the genre carried for decades. This book interweaves bachata's history and development with the socio-political context of Dominican identity. The author argues that its early disfavor resulted from the political climate of its origins and ties between class and race, and proposes that its ultimate acceptance as a symbol of Dominican identity arose from its innovations, the growth of the lower class, and a devoted following among Dominican migrants. La bachata--una musica de guitarra que se estreno en los barrios populares de Santo Domingo en los anos 60--hoy, es uno de los generos latinos mas populares. No obstante, sus aficionados y sus exponentes recuerdan el estigma social asociado que conllevo por decadas. Este libro entreteje la historia y el desarrollo de la bachata con el contexto socio-politico de la identidad dominicana. La autora plantea que su desaprobacion temprana resulto del clima politico en que nacio y los vinculos entre raza y clase social. Propone que su aceptacion final como simbolo de identidad dominicana surge de sus innovaciones, el crecimiento de la clase baja y sus seguidores leales entre los migrantes dominicanos.

Author : Sydney Hutchinson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022640546X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tigers of a Different Stripe written by Sydney Hutchinson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tigers of a Different Stripe, ethnomusicologist Sydney Hutchinson examines a variety of music genres in the Dominician Republic, and its diasporic communities, to shed light on how gender is performed through music, especially merengue tipico, a traditional, accordion-based genre that has undergone great change since the 1960s. Hutchinson goes beyond looking at just the music itself, to how dancing and listening, as well as viewing and discussing music, all play a part in gender performance and construction. Dominican gender roles are usually defined by a binary understanding of gender that is at its worst sexist and patriarchal, with macho men and subservient women. Hutchinson shows how wrong this is in musical performance, where musicians like Rita Indiana bend both gender and genre. The discussion naturally expands to movement, migration, race, class, and notions of tradition and modernity. In the end, Tigers shows how music can either reinforce entrenched gender roles or help to open up possibilities by imagining new roles and identities for all."

Author : Raquel Cepeda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451635877
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird of Paradise written by Raquel Cepeda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker chronicles her personal year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry through DNA testing, sharing her findings as well as her insights into controversies surrounding modern Latino identity.

Author : Freddy Antonio Taveras
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quisqueyano Hata la Tambora written by Freddy Antonio Taveras and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carlos Andujar
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628952253
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Presence in Santo Domingo written by Carlos Andujar and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its long and often tumultuous history, “La Hispanola” has taken on various cultural identities to meet the expectations—and especially the demands—of those who governed it. The island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti saw its first great shift with the arrival of Spanish colonists, who eliminated the indigenous population and established a pattern of indifference or hostility to diversity there. This enlightening book explores the Dominican Republic through the lens of its African descendants, beginning with the rise of the black slave trade in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century West Africa, and continuing on to slavery as it existed on the island. An engaging history that vividly details black life in the Dominican Republic, the book investigates the slave rebellions and evaluates the numerous contributions of black slaves to Dominican culture.

Author : Deborah Pacini Hernandez
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439900914
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oye Como Va! written by Deborah Pacini Hernandez and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latino music as an amalgam of American cultures.