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  2. Bachata (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Description. Bachata is a social couple dance with a lead and follow that can be performed in open, semi-closed or closed position. The basic step involves an eight-count side-to-side movement, with many variations and styles that can be added. On counts 4 and 8, bachata includes an exaggerated hip check that gives it a characteristic look and ...

  3. Bachata (music) - Wikipedia

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    Bachata arose in the poor and working class areas of the country. During the 1960s and early 1970s, while bachata was known as amargue music, it was seen as music of the lower class by middle-upper-class Dominicans. The genre's popularity rose in the 1980s and early 1990s when the rhythm began to reach the mainstream media.

  4. Music of the Dominican Republic - Wikipedia

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    Dominican Republic traditional merengue artist El Prodigio. Merengue is a musical genre native to the Dominican Republic. It has a moderate to a very fast 2/4 rhythm played on güira (metal scraper) and the double-headed tambora. The accordion is also common. Traditional, accordion-based merengue is usually termed merengue típico and is still ...

  5. Merengue (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Origin. Dominican Republic. Merengue (/ məˈrɛŋɡeɪ /, [1] Spanish: [meˈɾeŋɡe]) is a style of Dominican music and dance. Merengue is the national dance of the Dominican Republic and is also important to national identity in the country. It is a type of danced walk and is accessible to a large variety of people with or without dance ...

  6. Traditional bachata - Wikipedia

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    Traditional bachata is a subgenre of Bachata music genre. It refers to the acoustic style of bachata that was popular in the Dominican Republic from the 1960s until about 1990. For most of that period, bachata was performed with two nylon string guitars (often with fishing line for string), an acoustic upright bass or marimbula, maracas, and ...

  7. Joan Soriano - Wikipedia

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    Joan Soriano (born February 23, 1972) is a Dominican bachata singer and guitarist from the Dominican Republic. His style is a blend of modern with traditional bachata. Since the 1980s, Joan's guitar and arrangements have graced many hit bachatas by other artists, and since 2008, he has begun to make a name for himself internatio

  8. Raulín Rodríguez - Wikipedia

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    Raulín Marte Rodríguez (born June 16, 1971) is a Dominican bachata artist. He is one of the first major bachata artists to have international success. As a pioneer of the bachata genre, he helped grow the genre's popularity in the 1990s. While traditional bachata songs were often risque and suggestive, Raulín Rodríguez's idealized romantic ...

  9. List of Caribbean music genres - Wikipedia

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    The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles. Here provides a list of Jamaican/Jamaican influenced music genres, sub genres and derivative forms: Ska. Rocksteady.