The, Music, And Music

The genre bachata was developed in the Caribbean island of Dominican Republic. This genre was created based on boleros (slow-tempo Latin music), son cubanos, waltzes, Mexican music and merengue. Bachata is well known as love and depressing songs in which many people describe them self with this genre. At one point back in the earlier 1960s, bachata was considered vulgar and low-class. “Acceptance of the music has increased significantly in the last two decades, although some dominicans, both individuals living on the island and stateside, still do not accept the music because of the implication of its lower-class origins and associations with such themes as crime, poverty, drinking, and prostitution’’(Stavans 47). The genre Bachata has spread and grown so quickly for the past few years that is has become very famous in the United States, Europe, China, and South America. The genre bachata is well known to attract people with its lyrics, instruments, and dance since it identifies many people with real life events.

In this essay I will be describing and going into detail about salsa, plena, bomba, and merengue music. What really is the style of music along with the importance it has in and for the island it belongs to. As well as the effect the music has dealing with tourism and some of the famous musicians in that style.

This paper will be comparing and contrasting Merengue Tipico music, which is a type of merengue, and bachata music of the Dominican Republic. Merengue and Bachata are the two most popular music genres in the Dominican Republic. These two kinds of music represent the Dominican Republic and its people. Many Dominicans have taken their music and traditions to different parts of the world. Mainly, the Bachata and Merengue have expanded to different cities of the United States and Latin America. Although both genres have a lot of characteristics in common, they also have many differences. Two of the main differences these two genres have are the instrumentation and their artists and composers.

"But with the growth of nationalist sentiment, the 'invasion' of Cuban and North American dance forms, the growing presence of Afro-Puerto Rican popular music from 'below', by the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the upper classes had positively sanctified the danza as the national music of Puerto Rico. Overtime and in defensive reaction to rapid social, economic, and political change, the danza became a potent national symbol" (Glasser, 195).

The calypso music that comes from a Trinidad musician is exciting, not on the ground of the blood that he carries in his veins but rather the historical, cultural, and religious favors that are brought together to ensure its production.

Reggae, “a generic name for all Jamaican popular music since 1960, is defined as a ‘West Indian style of music with a strongly accented subsidiary beat” (Chang). Reggae music is a great style of music that was popularized by one of the world’s most famous musicians, Bob Marley. Personally, I never listened to it until I made it to college, and it has quickly become one of my favorite genres. For that reason is why I chose to write this paper on Reggae music. This genre is a very calming and relaxing style of music, which helps me when I am trying to focus on doing important tasks such as homework, including this paper. In this proton of the paper I will be looking into the history of Reggae music and the development of this particular

Latino Music in the International World Beat Industry While increasing circulation of world music within the U.S. were made possible by economic and cultural globalization The new aesthetic and commercial spaces created by the world beat industry made non-english language dance music for the first time since Latin music had declined and virtually disappeared. Spanish Caribbean music’s uneasy relationship to world music can also be attributed to the region’s history of doubt toward its own darker skinned

Music is a universal understanding of one’s culture. It allows people from all parts of the world to come together to appreciate and love one another for their differences. My mother is Filipino and my father is Mexican. Though both ethnicities are rich in history, I have chosen to specifically focus on the land of my father, Jalisco, Mexico. With lively rhythms, different vocalists, and historical dances, Jalisco’s music comes together to tell a story.

Of all of the worlds music Flamenco is probably the most misrepresented. For decades people have thought of Flamenco as a soundtrack to two weeks on the beach. Behind the postcard image of Flamenco lies music full of passion and beauty and you do not have to look far to find it. Many people think that Flamenco is a Spanish Folk music. However historically Flamenco was only to be found in one province which was Andalucía. How it became to be synonymous with Spain has much to do with how the country was sold to sun seekers by Western Europe’s most enduring

Despite its importance today, until recently the bachata was a musical pariah in his home country, the Dominican Republic. Since its emergence in the 1960s, bachata, closely associated with poor rural migrants residing in urban slum, too crude, too vulgar and musically rustic to be allowed entry into the mainstream musical landscape. In their start times bachata was not very popular among people of high society saw nothing more than a crude expression of music to entertain people low resources or urban areas but with the time was more

Assignment #1 The influence of Africans in Dominican Republic music Dominican Republic is mainly known for Merengue and Bachata music, but there are other music forms that were played on the island of Hispaniola long before the music that most relate to that country. The slaves brought that music that is heard on the entire island and it was transmitted for over 500 years. However, most Dominicans do not recognize this music as their own because they consider it as more Haitian because of its African origins. Many have tried to disassociate themselves from their African-Slave background. Nowadays, it seems that more Dominicans are starting to pay attention to these forms of music.

Colombia is home to one of the many unique form of musical genre called Vallenato that formed around the second half of the 20th century. It initiated from a small valley region of northeastern Colombia and the term vallenato itself literally translates to someone from the valley, (‘valle’ and ‘nato’). It is described as the poor man’s music, like the workers from the farmlands of Colombia. The Mississippi and Magdalena River carry heavy origins of vallenato music. These rivers signify the struggles and experiences of those living by the river in this country. Identified as a descendant of Cumbia music, Vallenato music was influenced by romantic music and everyday work related songs. In the beginning vallenato music was looked down upon as music only played by those of the lower class nevertheless,

In reading in-depth about this piece, we find the constructs of gender roles, religion, and even age involved in the gamelan music of Bali. Gaya will affect how women play, age will affect how well one has learned an instrument or how the dancers might perform, and religion can dictate every aspect of social norms and expectation in a society, including political systems and laws in a country. Although simply listening to Mekar Sari is certainly enjoyable, one cannot truly understand the meanings inherent in a piece until they have understood the music’s origins and story.

Scholars have attempted to define music, and to be quite honest, it will be a huge challenge to try to weave a definition around the art that is music, because it is beyond definition. However, for the purposes of this work, we shall adopt the definition by Aluede & Eregare (2009), not because the definition is, in itself, complete, but because it captures the very essence of what we look for in the definition of music. Music, according to Aluede & Aregare (2009), is not only an organization of sound but also a symbolic expression of a social and cultural organization, which reflects the values, past and present ways of life of human beings. Also, Jones (1975), cited in Amana and Onogu (2015), defines music as “a language which encodes emotions, aspirations and people’s goals in autonomous and self-expressive arts forms.” These definitions are important in understanding music, because they highlight the fact that music does not only appeal to the feel-good emotion, it is not only used for entertainment; it is a valid form of social expression and this underscores the centrality of music in African socio-cultural life.