Bachata and Dominican identity = La bachata y la identidad dominicana /

"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. This book interweaves bachata's history and development with the socio-political context of Dominican identity in both the national and int...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sellers, Julie A.
Other Authors:	Tejeda, Darío
Format:	Book
Language:	English Spanish
Language Notes:	English and Spanish.
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Subjects:	Bachata > Dominican Republic > History and criticism. Popular music > Social aspects > Dominican Republic. Bachata. Popular music > Social aspects. Dominican Republic. Música popular > Aspectos sociales > República Dominicana. Spanish language materials. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Darío Tejeda
Preface
Introduction
1. Situating Bachata : naming and claiming a genre
2. Interpreting Dominicanidad
3. Dictatorship and nation-building : the era of Trujillo
4. The dawn of Bachata
5. Bachata's many faces : from the red-light district to rose-colored Bachata
6. Romantic Bachata
7. The Dominican transnational community and Bachata Típica
8. United States and mainstream modern Bachata
9. Las Bachateras
Conclusion.