Bachata: A Social History of a Dominician Popular Music by Deborah Pacini Hernández

Bachata: A Social History of a Dominician Popular Music

Deborah Pacini Hernández

267 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction music
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Like rap in the United States, bachata began as a music of the poor and dispossessed. Originating in the shantytowns of the Dominican Republic, it reflects the social and economic dislocation of the poorest Dominicans. Derived from the Latin Ameri...

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