Bachata and Dominican identity =
Subtitle: La bachata y la identidad dominicana
By: Julie A. Sellers ; foreword by Darío Tejeda
Contributors: Tejeda, Darío
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780786476732
Subjects: Social aspects; Popular music; Bachata; History and criticism
Other titles: Bachata y la identidad dominicana
Description: "Bachata--a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo's urban shantytowns in the 1960s--is today one of the hottest Latin genres. This book interweaves bachata's history and development with the socio-political context of Dominican identity in both the national and international community. Research is enriched with interviews conducted with bachata musicians and producers, radio announcers, and experts."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.

English and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Darío Tejeda; title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: 1. Situating Bachata : naming and claiming a genre; title: 2. Interpreting Dominicanidad; title: 3. Dictatorship and nation-building : the era of Trujillo; title: 4. The dawn of Bachata; title: 5. Bachata's many faces : from the red-light district to rose-colored Bachata; title: 6. Romantic Bachata; title: 7. The Dominican transnational community and Bachata Típica; title: 8. United States and mainstream modern Bachata; title: 9. Las Bachateras; title: Conclusion.