Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity - Paul Austerlitz - Books - Temple University Press,U.S. - 9781566394840 - January 22, 1997
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Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity


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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 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

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