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Merengue and Dominican identity : music as national unifier

Title
Merengue and Dominican identity : music as national unifier / Julie A. Sellers ; foreword by Stephen C. Ropp.
Author
Sellers, Julie A.
Publication
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.

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Description
xiii, 225 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Based on the author's thesis (M.A.)--University of Wyoming.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-218) and index.
Contents
Colonial legacy -- Dominican identity and the Haitian other -- Fragmentation, personalism, violence, and economic ruin : the period of the great caudillos -- Merengue's first steps, 1844-1916 -- U.S. occupation and Dominican nationalism -- In step : merengue in the era of Trujillo -- Post-Trujillo politics : continuity and change -- Post-Trujillo merengue : tradition, innovative freedom and ethnic questioning -- Merengue and transnational identities -- Caribbean comparisons.
Call Number
*MGS (Dominican) 04-3708
ISBN
  • 078641815X (softcover : 50# alk. paper)
  • 9780786418152 (softcover : 50# alk. paper)
LCCN
2004017524
OCLC
56096852
Author
Sellers, Julie A.
Title
Merengue and Dominican identity : music as national unifier / Julie A. Sellers ; foreword by Stephen C. Ropp.
Imprint
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-218) and index.
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Local Subject
Social dancing -- Dominican Republic
Research Call Number
*MGS (Dominican) 04-3708
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