Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity

Foreword - Robert Farris Thompson Preface 1. Introduction Part I: The History of Merengue, 1854-1961 2. Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Merengue 3. Merengue Cibaeno, Cultural Nationalism, and Resistance 4. Music and the State: Merengue during the Era of Trujillo, 1930-1961 Part II: The Contemporary Era, 1961-1995 5. Merengue in the Transnational community 6. Innovation and Social Issues in Pop Merengue 7. Merengue on the Global Stage 8. Enduring Localism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Interviews Index