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Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Sydney Hutchinson is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) about?
Tigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue típico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue típico they are more often instrumentalists and even bandleaders—something nearly unheard of in the macho Caribbean music scene. Examining this cultural phenomenon, Sydney Hutchinson offers an unexpected and fascinating account of gender in Dominican art and life
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- Author
- Sydney Hutchinson
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226405636
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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