OUR MERENGUE not the other

"... I turn to the other as what is outside, because we want him out. I mean, even though the other is a reality, have created obstacles to acceptance within.The other thing there is, however, as something that survives the ignorance of those within ... "1 Dominican Republic, was embedded in the history of other peoples with the discovery of America. European and African cultures comes through Santo Domingo and from there across the continent. Hartley Henry However, "the Dominican people has difficulty recognized as Caribbean.The rejection or ignorance of its African roots have built a false identity that does not value the cultural legacy that binds the rest of the region "2, despite its geographical location and the different races gathered there: Europe , Africans and Indians. The Haitians that persists among many Dominicans is evident in musical research, where completely ignore the Haitian merengue merengue and the relationship with the quadrille that was ignored for many years. However it is clear that the indigenous songs called areitos mixed with the elegance of Spanish culture and the rhythmic strength of African culture and created a wonderful colorful scene in Dominican music.One of the best examples is given to the sisters Teodora and Micaela Ginez, Dominican, black slaves, who interpreted the Vihuela Bandola and creating a new rhythm, grown in the Dominican Republic, and developed in Cuba, the Son. "El Son de la Ma Teodora" marks the starting point of popular music as an expression created by native Dominicans. None of the Antillean peoples knew the drum and blow ancestral. That was privilege of the Dominicans. The drum and g ira are two musical instruments that set the pace in the meringue. The particular sound of the drum is that one side has old goat skin warm with rum Creole and other young goat skin that has not calved.While the meringue development throughout the Dominican Republic during the nineteenth century, the largest city in the Cibao region of Santiago de los Caballeros, became a focal point for development of El Perico merengue Ripiao known as typical.