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The Modern Bachateros: 27 Interviews

The Modern Bachateros: 27 Interviews

Paperback

DanceGeneral MusicLatino Studies

ISBN10: 078649882X
ISBN13: 9780786498826
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Mar 22 2017
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

The guitar-based music known as bachata was born in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s. Brought to the U.S. by Dominican migrants, it has continually developed to reflect the changing tastes of fans and musicians. Bachata became increasingly popular among younger Dominican Americans in the 1990s and 2000s. This generation of artists reshaped the music, blending multiple genres with Spanish and English lyrics to reflect their multicultural reality. In this book, 27 artists share their personal and collective insights into how modern bachata provides an intimate representation of what it means to be Dominican, Latino, multicultural, and bilingual in a transnational setting.

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