Dominican Republic Trip

Dominican Jazz

Jazz, music known worldwide and considered the musicians’ music.  This music style does not have exact background about it beginning but the first recordings go back to 1917; it was created in United States, New Orleans and it is an African American music. Jazz in Dominican Republic had its beginning in [...]

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Merengue

It is the Dominican national dance and our folkloric dance. It’s a music style with a joyful tone; it has a mixture of musical instruments which turn it into a very contagious rhythm easy to dance. Merengue was born in el Cibao, the northern zone of Dominican Republic, specifically in Santiago de los [...]

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Dominican Bachata

Bachata, also called “music of bitterness” due to its high passion content; it is a rhythm born in Dominican Republic and it has been part of Dominican people for decades, especially in towns and rural areas. At the end of the 80s this rhythm began to expand in order to reach [...]

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