other genres of dominican music

Salves:

 

salve is a call and response type of singing uses a lot of african instruments. Salves are ceremonials that are used to in pilgrimages and at parties dedicated to saints.

 

Palo:

dominican sacred music that can be found around all the island. the drum and the voice are the principal instruments. Palo is played at religious ceremonies, usually coinciding with saint' days. Palos and Salves are related by the instruments used and the main subject which are the saints.

 

An african culture that dominican still keeping alive.

 

Dominican Rock:

Dominican rock is popular among younger and not so younger crowds of the Dominican Republic. Dominican rock is influenced by British and American rock, but also has its own sense of unique style. The rock scene in the Dominican Republic has been very vibrant in recent years, spanning many genres of rock such as pop rock, reggae/rock, punk, metal.

 

Reggaeton:

dominican reggaeton is associated to puertorican reggaeton. Dominican reggaeton is like a mixture of bachata and merengue rhythm, and also in Dominican Republic the reggaeton singers try to follow famous singers from Puerto Rico like Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Arkangel, and Luny Tunes.

 

Jazz:

the most important representative of the genre is Michael Camilo.

 

The music in Dominican Republic is very important because the music keeps the happiness between the population, is a way to express how we enjoy our lifes day by day.

 

 

bachata

bachata is a popular guitar music, which was originated in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. Bachata took shape over a period of 40 years in the bars and brothels of the different cities, this genre did not gain acceptance until 10 years ago. Bachata is a variant of bolero. the bolero in our culture is traditionally romantic, dealing with themes like deception and lost of love. Bachata subjects are must of the time romantic; especially prevalent are tales of heartbrake and sadness, just like bolero's music. Bachata dance is a four-step beat achieved with a walking Cuban hip motion, and a unique "pop". The dance is performed both in open position and in closed position depending on the setting and mood of the partners.

 

The genre of bachata has passed throught many faces since 1961, because for that time bachata was considered as the music played in places of ill repute. With the death of the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in 1963 a huge number of musicians left the rural areas to record their music in the capital. During the era of the dictator the music was monopolized by his family and with his dead arise the first generation of "bachateros". The 1970s was a dark era for bachata because it was even metioned  on tv or played on the radio, because of the content of the music. By the 1980s bachata began to take some place in the dominican society, due to popular demand of the population.  By the 1990s the sound was modernized and the bachata was dominated by two young stars: Luis Vargas and Anthony Santos. Both mix bachata with merengue in their repertoires. They were the first generation of pop bachata artists and with them the bachata began to emerge internationally as a music of hispanic dance-halls.

Juan Luis Guerra and Aventura are accreditted the most important representatives of bachata, they have taken the genre around USA, Europe, and almost all Latin America.

merengue

Our music is represented primarily for Merengue, though Bachata and other forms are also very popular like Perico Ripiao, Dominican Rap, Merengue from the street, Bachata Height, and Reggaeton.

Merengue:

merengue has been part of our repertoire since mid-19th century, it was during the dictatorship of Trujillo, when merengue became the most dominant musical genre on the island. In these days merengue is also very popular in Latin America and some parts of the world. The word merengue comes from an spanish word "meringue" which is a dessert made from whipped egg whites and sugar. Merengue was created by Ñico Lora a Dominican of spanisg descent, in the 1920s.

The most famous artist from Dominican Republic is Juan Luis Guerra. This man took the dominican music to a hight level around the world, with his amaizing voice and a great way to mix his music with another genres many people dance our music in many places. He just does not sing merengue, is very good in bachata, and he also has duos songs with other famous artist like Enrique Iglesias. He had won Latin Grammy Awards, and many pizes in Dominican republic.

Other famous singers from Dominican Republic are Fernando Villalona, Jhonny Ventura, and Sergio Vargas all of this are merengue singers.

DOMINICAN CULTURE

 

 

The culture of the dominican have been influenced by many different cultures, and the result of that is what we are today. the dominan official language is the Spanish because of the spanish colonialism, other languages that some people speak are Creole and English. English is becoming more prevalent and common due to the continued emigration to USA. Dominican are very amiable and we have a great sense of hospitality. It is very common at every dominican house to invite friends and family without any special reason to share a meal, we like to smile and laught at every moment. Dominicans try to have a relax attitude, because the main point is to avoid bad moments.

 

The Catholic Church is the principal religion in the country. The dominican culture still using some of the taino culture like with medicine, food, and several names of cities and different stuffs. An example of this is the Cassava, the tainos used to prepared to eat, and we still using it; also name of cities like Higuey, which is an important city in the East of the country.

 

 

Dominican Republic's national beer is Presidente and the national drik is Rum, people combine this drinks watching out national sport "BASEBALL".

For every dominican home the food is very important, thats why we have a great variety of food. Something very important for us is the music, as we are a very happy country, the music is part of our daily life.

 

Dominican culture is awesome, and we can absorb any other culture and make any person feel in home, this is a great characteristic that every dominican has, and that is why many people enjoy of our company.

 

history of how DOMINICAN REPUBLIC became an independet country.....

Thousands of years before Christopher Colombus discovered what today is America for the Europeans, the first island that he and his crew landed was  named by Colombus as la Hispaniola; this island was inhabitted by tainos indians. The word taino mean "good person" in their native language, they showed that to the spanish when they got to the island in 1942. the tainos indians were very peaceful and they were very organized. the spainiards saw that the tainos where an easy target to conquer, and also they saw how rich this island was. for the tainos the island was called Quisqueya, and they had a lot of gold jewelry around everywhere because the gold was found very easy almost in every river of the island, so Colombus hurried his trip back to Spain to talk about his new discovery.

 

in Christopher Colombus second trip to La Hispaniola, he brought all kind of equipment and any kind of men to prepare the conquest of the island. he start to explote the tainos with hard work and the women from the island were sexually abused by the spaniards. the tainos were kind of weak and with all the different diseases that the spaniards brought, the tainos start to die and their population began to dissappear very quickly. Colombus decided to use stronger men, so he brought africans to the island. the conquer of the spaniards was very succesful and they were getting all what they want, but the coming years other big nations from Europe start to navigate to the new world, and this became a problem for spain. for many year La Hispaniola was a colony of Spain, but then the France got into the island and colonized the west part of the island. the problems start for Spain when france, and the africans, and a few of the tainos that where in the island start to fight against them. Spain lost the island, so the island was part of France now, but after a while the the africans moved to the west part of the island and became independent from the french, they called their part of the island Haiti. and a few years later the haitians occupied the entire island.

(christopher colombus house in DR)

 

for 22 years the east part of the island was dominated by Haiti, there were many attempts before from the inhabitants of the east part who where a mixture of races (spaniars, tainos, and africans), this attempts failed, so om February 27th of 1844 was created what today is Dominican Republic, thanks to a secrete organization called "La Trinitaria" that was under the leadership of Juan Pablo Duarte.

dominican republic introduction!!!

dominican republic is located in the caribean next cuba, puerto rico, haiti, and jamaica. these countries form what is called the Greater antilles. dominican republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, where domincan republic has the biggest part of the territory of the island.

dominican republic is a great island where people can go and enjoy of the natural resources, and the great sense of humor of the population from this marvelous country.
dominican republic history is very interesting because many things happened in this little country. the spanish colonization, the french ocupation, the haitian ocupation, our independence, war of restoration, USA ocupation, an era of a dictator....
this country had suffered a lot of things, but still trying to improve the economy, and the style of live of the population. the dominican population has something very important and it is that it does not matter how tough the situation is they always try to find the good things of everything and keep going forward.

our economy depends a lot of what we produce in the crops, and of the tourist. the tourism is fundamental for us since people around the world go to DR to enjoy of our beaches, rivers, mountains, and any kind of landscape that people can find there.

dominican republic is full of happiness and a lot things to offer to all the world, and i will post them on my web page so you can enjoy of them and maybe i can convince you to visit my country.

dominican republic

first day of my winter term class!!!!

after a great and short break, we finally came back to graceland for the winter term class. i was kind of sad because the break was gone for me, but now after the introduction of our class, i am vey interested and excited about our project.
today we were looking through our sillabus to know what we were going to do, there were very interesting things like that we need to creat a blogg, and a web page this is something different for me, since i am not very familiar with this things. Also we were suppose to think about what our web page is going to be about, my first thought was my country, because there are a lot of interesting and nice thinks that i can publish on a web page, and hopefully many people can learn more about it.

dominican republic is a country full of happiness and nice places to visit, and i will give my best to show all of them on my web page, i also will talk about the culture, the food, the music, and all the good and bad things that will come to my mind about dominican republic.

i'm proud of my nationality and one of my purposes is to make that people from other countries feel interested about DR and visit that amazing island in the caribbean.