
doi: 10.1353/lat.0.0024
El siguiente trabajo propone senalar eslabones perdidos entre la danza y el merengue, terminos que en un principio significaron una sola expresion musical y bailable. En el animo de crear una expresion propia, varios nacionalistas musicales de la Republica Dominicana vindicaron formas del folclore ligadas al merengue o danza, cuyos estilos introdujeron especialmente las bandas militares desde Puerto Rico.Varios de los musicos puertorriquenos abandonaron las bandas militares espanolas y permanecieron en la Republica Dominicana, de modo que contribuyeron al fomento de la danza y a la formacion de un mayor contingente de compositores dominicanos. La poblacion dominicana adopto la danza como su baile preferido, hasta influir en los conjuntos tipicos. Pero una crisis de identidad indujo a escritores y compositores a adoptar un nacionalismo que cerro su mundo a influencias externas al punto de negar el vinculo original entre el merengue y la danza. Eventualmente al merengue se le adosa una forma especial, conocida como jaleo, formula que, al igual que ocurre con el son adosado al danzon cubano, le presenta al mundo una sintesis de varias formas preexistentes de folclore dominicano. The following article unveils missing linkages between danza and merengue , terms that meant a sole musical expression introduced by military bands from Puerto Rico. Several Puerto Rican musicians abandoned their regiments and remained in Santo Domingo to help make a larger contingent of Dominican composers, continuing to promote the danza urban Dominicans as well as peasant musicians adopted as the preferred music for their dances. But an identity crisis in the Dominican Republic compelled writers and composers to embrace a nationalist stance that closed their world to external influences, to the extreme of denying linkages between merengue and danza. Eventually, a form designed as jaleo — synthesizing styles of Dominican folklore—is appended to the danza much like the rural son became attached to the urban danzon in Cuba. In this way, danza came to be presented to the world as “Dominican merengue.”
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