Bridging Sonic Borders
224 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:20 May 2025
ISBN:9781477331552
Hardcover
Release Date:20 May 2025
ISBN:9781477331545
Bridging Sonic Borders
Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature
SERIES:
Latinx: The Future Is Now
University of Texas Press
How music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers’ identities and links the homeland to the diaspora.
- Introduction. Bridging Sonic Literary Borders between the Dominican Republic and New York City
- Chapter 1. Merengue Makes It to los Países--with a Twist
- Chapter 2. From Santo Domingo to New York City: The Sonic Tales of Luis “Terror” Días and Other “Pendejos Anónimos”
- Chapter 3. Reframing Afro-Latina Narratives of Girlhood and Womanhood: Bridging the Borders between Fiction, Nonfiction, and Hip-Hop
- Chapter 4. Storytelling from the Borderlands: The Journeys of a Dominicanyork Writer and Performer
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
