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Bachata
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Deborah Pacini Hernandez
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Temple University Press

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Defining Bachata -- Music and Dictatorship -- The Birth of Bachata -- Power, Representation, and Identity -- Love, Sex, and Gender -- From the Margins to the Ma
Bachata and Dominican Identity / La bachata y la identidad dominicana
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Julie A. Sellers
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-02 - Publisher: McFarland

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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
The Modern Bachateros
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Julie A. Sellers
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-01 - Publisher: McFarland

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The guitar-based music known as bachata was born in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s. Brought to the U.S. by Dominican migrants, it has continually dev
Sounds of Resistance
Language: en
Pages: 583
Authors: Eunice Rojas
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-08 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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From the gospel music of slavery in the antebellum South to anti-apartheid freedom songs in South Africa, this two-volume work documents how music has fueled re
Merengue
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Paul Austerlitz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-22 - Publisher: Temple University Press

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Merengue is a quintessential Dominican dance music. This work aims to unravel the African and Iberian roots of merengue. It examines the historical and contempo