Bachata Music Analysis
Therefore, it is useful to analyze this music in detail, trying to appreciate its connections to Dominican culture and the ways through which it creates such strong bonds among Dominicans. It is clear that bachata creates these impressive bonds, but how does it do this? How did it originate, and how has it evolved? More broadly, what can we learn from bachata and its relationship to the Dominican national community that may help us--through contrasts perhaps even more than through comparisons--to understand the relationships of music to other national communities as well?