Merengue

Dominican Music and Dominican Identity

Autor: Paul Austerlitz

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Editura: Temple University Press,U.S.

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Merengue the quintessential Dominican dance music has a long and complex history, both on the island...

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Autor

Paul Austerlitz

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1997

Pagini

216

EAN

9781566394840

ISBN

1566394848

Enbook ID

05082148

Editura

Temple University Press,U.S.

Greutate

322

Dimensiuni

153 x 229 x 16

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Merengue the quintessential Dominican dance music has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City. In this ambitious work, Paul Austerlitz unravels the African and Iberian roots of merengue and traces its growth under dictator Rafael Trujillo and its renewed popularity as an international music. Using extensive interviews as well as written commentaries, Austerlitz 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. He tells the tale of merengue's political functions, and of its class and racial significance. He not only explores the various ethnic origins of this Ibero-African art form, but points out how some Dominicans have tried to deny its African roots.In today's global society, mass culture often marks ethnic identity. Found throughout Dominican society, both at home and abroad, merengue is the prime marker of Dominican identity. By telling the story of this dance music, the author captures the meaning of mass and folk expression in contemporary ethnicity as well as the relationship between regional, national, and migrant culture and between rural/regional and urban/mass culture. Austerlitz also traces the impact of migration and global culture on the native music, itself already a vibrant intermixture of home-grown merengue forms. From rural folk idiom to transnational mass music, merengue has had a long and colorful career. Its well-deserved popularity will make this book a must read for anyone interested in contemporary music; its complex history will make the book equally indispensable to anyone interested in cultural studies. Paul Austerlitz is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Miami.

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