Areíto

Areíto Areíto is an indigenous semidramatic performance in the Caribbean Islands in which episodes are reenacted through dance, music, and religious customs. Upon their arrival in the 16th century, the Spanish conquistadors and missionaries saw this type of cultural manifestation as idolatry and thus prohibited it. References to it abound in contemporary Latin music. Among other musicians, the Dominican composer of merengue and bachata Juan Luis Guerra, to commemorate the quincentennial of…