Merengue

Merengue Known as the national music of the Dominican Republic, merengue is a musical genre that took Latin America by storm in the 1980s, replacing salsa as the predominant Latin music in radio stations and nightly venues. The evolution of merengue is intimately tied to a series of turning events in Dominican national history and, like many national genres, speaks volumes about the ways issues of identity are resolved in Latin American society. In terms of race, for example, though the vast…