El sonido de la musica en la narrativa dominicana: Ensayos sobre identidad, nacion y performance (Spanish Edition)

This book is a collection of scholarly essays focused on the relationship between literature and popular music in the Dominican Republic. The authors analyze how writers from the 19th to the 21st centuries incorporate elements of popular music either to support or to contest dominant ideas about the definition of Dominican identity. Table of Contents: PRIMERA PARTE: ENSAYOS CR TICOS "Merengue, lujuria y violencia: El espect culo de la barbarie en el imaginario de la naci n dominicana," by M dar Serrata. "La m sica en la narrativa dominicana: Sonidos y sentidos," by Pura Emeterio Rond n. "Solo cenizas hallar s (Bolero), de Pedro Verg s: Puede cantar la subalterna?," by Rita De Maeseneer. "M sica y literatura sonora: Dos novelas de dictadura," by Dar o Tejeda, "Lucha sonora en Emoticons de Aurora Arias," by Fernando Valerio-Holgu n. 'Hace[r] encantadora la idea del desencanto': Lu s 'Terror' D as en los cuentos de Aurora Arias," by Emily A. Maguire. "La m sica popular y la [de]construcci n de la masculinidad dominicana de los m rgenes en Bachata del ngel ca do de Pedro Antonio Valdez," by Christoph er A. McGrath. "La bachata del gay volador: El desaf o a la (homo)sexualidad y la identidad dominicana en la m sica de Andy Pe a y en Bachata del ngel ca do de Pedro Antonio Valdez," by Danny M ndez. "La comuni n entre m sica y literatura en La estrategia de Chochueca: En busca de la heterogeneidad perdida," by Sharina Maillo Pozo. "Sinfon a del desencanto: La destrucci n de Ciudad Trujillo en Rita Indiana Hern ndez," by Lorna Torrado. SEGUNDA PARTE: LOS ESCRITORES Y LA M SICA "Otra vez el Folklore: El valor de lo propio y el retorno a s mismo," by Ram n Marrero Aristy. "Boleros para recordar a Tico Sinatra," by Marcio Veloz Maggiolo. 'Quer amos la vellonera, y la lectura de la vellonera': Escritos sobre m sica popular," by Enriquillo S nchez. "Con la m sica por dentro: Entrevista con Aurora Arias," by Rebeca Castellanos. "Pedro, el musical," by Pedro Antonio Valdez. "Rita Indiana: No la llamen Lady Gag ," by Ed Morales. About the Author M dar Serrata is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Grand Valley State University.