Merengue and Dominican Identity

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments     
• Foreword: Stephen C. Ropp     
• Introduction: “In Our Blood”     
• 1. Colonial Legacy     
• 2. Dominican Identity and the Haitian Other     
• 3. Fragmentation, Personalism, Violence and Economic Ruin: The Period of the Great Caudillos     
• 4. Merengue’s First Steps: 1844–1916     
• 5. U.S. Occupation and Dominican Nationalism     
• 6. In Step: Merengue in the Era of Trujillo     
• 7. Post-Trujillo Politics: Continuity and Change     
• 8. Post-Trujillo Merengue: Tradition, Innovative Freedom and Ethnic Questioning     
• 9. Merengue and Transnational Identities     
• 10. Caribbean Comparisons     
• Conclusions: “Sólo se siente!”     
• Bibliography     
• Index