 Merengue
: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity by Paul Austerlitz,
Robert Farris Thompson
Merengue:
Dominican Music and Dominican Identity is the fruit of many years
of scholarly, artistic, and personal interactions with Dominicans.
Born in Finland and raised in New York City, I was introduced
to Dominican culture when playing saxophone in New York's merengue
bands in the 1980s. The music was so happy, and the Dominican
people so warm, that I decided to write my Ph.D. dissertation
on merengue after entering the Wesleyan University ethnomusicology
program. The book walks through merengue's 150 year history, focusing
on the relationship between this beautiful music and Dominican
national identity. -- Paul Austerlitz
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