{"product_id":"bridging-sonic-borders-9781477331552","title":"Bridging Sonic Borders","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers' identities and links the homeland to the diaspora.    Music has played a large role in recent Dominican literature, whether of the island or the diaspora. Bridging Sonic Borders 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.  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.","brand":"MU - University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040537051479,"sku":"9781477331552","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477331552.jpg?v=1750947049","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bridging-sonic-borders-9781477331552","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}