{"product_id":"9781477331552-bridging-sonic-borders","title":"Bridging Sonic Borders","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePopular Music in Contemporary Dominican\/Dominicanyork Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers’ identities and links the homeland to the diaspora.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Music has played a large role in recent Dominican literature, whether of the island or the diaspora. \u003ci\u003eBridging Sonic Borders\u003c\/i\u003e explores this sonic connection linking the homeland and far-flung locales-especially New York, the center of Dominican cultural production in the United States. Sharina MaÍllo-Pozo argues that literary representations of popular music delineate a shared aesthetic territory for US and Caribbean Dominicans, fostering an inclusive and transnational Dominicanidad. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Examining works written in Spanish, English, and Dominicanish, MaÍllo-Pozo focuses on Dominican\/Dominicanyork writings that have nurtured a borderless aesthetics through their shared investment in hip-hop, jazz, blues, pop, rock, and merengue. For Dominican writers, popular music has become a way of exploring memory and nostalgia and a means of centering people rejected from hegemonic identity formation-the working class, those of African descent, rural and queer people. For example, many works focused on the life of rocker Luis “Terror” DÍas have emphasized the in-between identity of being both Dominican and a New Yorker. Collectively, these writings have created a space in which boundaries of nation and diaspora are revealed for their fundamental porosity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55663005630838,"sku":"9781477331552","price":26.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38185292_59a8ddd0-33cb-4ca4-922e-8c1b268d2e35.jpg?v=1763787309","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781477331552-bridging-sonic-borders","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}