Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity

ISBN-13: 9781566394840 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 216 str.

Paul Austerlitz; Robert Farris Thompson; Robert Farris Thompson

Opis

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.