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Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity Paul Austerlitz
Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity
Paul Austerlitz
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.
216 pages, 25 illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 22, 1997 |
| ISBN13 | 9781566394840 |
| Publishers | Temple University Press,U.S. |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 229 × 16 mm · 322 g |