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The guitar-based music known as bachata was born in the
marginalized barrios of the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s,
although it has constantly evolved to better represent the current
realities of its fans and musicians. Carried to the United States
with Dominican migrants, bachata became increasingly popular among
the younger generations of Dominican Americans in the 1990s and
2000s. This generation of artists reshaped bachata by blending
multiple genres with Spanish and English to reflect their
multicultural and multilingual realities. The thirty-one artists
included in this interview book share personal and collective
insights into how their modern bachata provides an intimate
representation of what it means to be Dominican, Latino,
multicultural, and bilingual in a transnational setting.
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.
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. Dominicans at home and abroad have embraced
bachata as synonymous with national identity. But fans and
musicians who were part of bachata when bachata wasn't cool 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 in both the national
and international community. Foundational research is enriched with
interviews conducted with bachata musicians and producers, radio
announcers, and experts in the field. The author argues that
bachata's early disfavour was a result of the political climate of
its origins and deeply rooted ties between class and race, and
proposes that the genre's growing popularity and ultimate
acceptance as a symbol of Dominican identity arise from its
instrumental and lyrical innovation, and a devoted following among
the migrants of the Dominican of the diaspora.
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