Tigers of a different stripe : performing gender in Dominican music /

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 bandlead...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hutchinson, Sydney, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Series:Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
Subjects:
Popular music > Dominican Republic > History and criticism.
Gender identity in music.
Musique populaire > République dominicaine > Histoire et critique.
Identité de genre dans la musique.
MUSIC > General.
Popular music.
Dominican Republic.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A gendered history
  • Tatico forever
  • Fefita the great
  • Filosofía de Calle: transnational Tigueraje
  • Temporary transvestites: cross-dressing merengue, bachata, and reggatetón
  • Listening sideways: the transgenre work of Rita Indiana
  • Dispatch from an imaginary island.

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