Tigers of a Different Stripe : Performing Gender in Dominican Music /

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Tigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue típico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue típico they are more often instrumentalists and even bandleader...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hutchinson, Sydney (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Colección:Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Temas:
Gender identity in music.
Popular music > Dominican Republic > History and criticism.
MUSIC / General.
Caribbean music.
Dominican Republic.
ethnomusicology.
gender.
merengue típico.
performance.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Gendered History
  • 3. Tatico Forever
  • 4. Fefita the Great
  • 5. Filosofía de Calle: Transnational Tigueraje
  • 6. Temporary Transvestites: Cross-Dressing Merengue, Bachata, and Reggaetón
  • 7. Listening Sideways: The Transgenre Work of Rita Indiana
  • 8. Dispatch from an Imaginary Island
  • Appendix A: Dominican Musics Mentioned in This Book
  • Appendix B: A Comparison of Two Accordionists' Botaos
  • Appendix C: Movement and Gesture Analysis of Fefita la Grande Performing "La chiflera"
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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