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Tigers of a different stripe : performing gender in Dominican music / Sydney Hutchinson.
LIBRA ML3487.D66 H88 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hutchinson, Sydney, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Dominican Republic--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Gender identity in music.
- Dominican Republic.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 279 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Tigers of a different stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional music of the Donimican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or Vocalists, in merengue tipico they are more often instrumentalists and even bandleaders-something nearly unheard of in the macho Caribbean music scene. Examining this cultural phenomenon, Sydney Hutchinson offers an unexpected and fascinating account of gender in Dominican art and life. Book jacket.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226405322
- 022640532X
- 9780226405469
- 022640546X
- OCLC:
- 944087617
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