The Dominican carnaval is a popular festivity that is produced throughout the whole island during the month of February. As a result of its mixed roots with the Spaniards, the carnival started as a Christian celebration in preparation for the passion of Christ. After the Spaniards were gone and the Dominican Republic, and Haiti were settled Dominican Republic gained their independence on February 27th, 1844, and it became the tradition to keep celebrating the carnival every year during the four Sundays of the month February.
February is one of the most anticipated months of the year by Dominicans both in the country and other countries like the United States, and countries of Europe. Many “Dominican york”, someone Dominican living in New York City, will go back to their homes to celebrate the whole month with their families because the winters are cold, and aside from the parties, the country is hot all year round. The Dominican Diaspora in New York City has a large number, and it keeps growing everyday. A Dominican York is known for influencing the Dominicans in the country with the American culture. Because of such influences, they are changes in the music, for example bachata and merengue were not played often in the carnaval except for the carnaval anthems, a famous theme song is Baile la calle by Fernando Villalona.
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A Baile la calle is a song used a national anthem because of its use of merengue, and emphasis on dancing. You can also hear the use of whistles, which are highly used during the month of February by the kids to call the attention of the people in the costumes. The song is trying to encourage everybody to go dance in the streets day and night with no stopping. This shows us how important is the dancing to the Dominican culture. Regardless of how hot the people are in their costumes they are dancing as they song goes day and night starting their weekends Saturdays’ mornings when most people do not have to work. The celebrations are filled with people from all ages, and social statuses. In modern day, during the festivities all Dominicans become one since they are all celebrating carnaval, and dancing to the same song that the loudspeakers coming from one of the portable cuevas--caves, they are called cuevas as it a metaphor for hiding from bad spirits—that people built around the parks to host parties, and showcase their costumes. Groups that come together to host parties during the festivities, they all wear the same kind of costume this can be compared to a fraternity, or a bike club, where the presence of brotherhood and machismo is there. After the groups come out of their cuevas, the people in their costumes as ready to use their vejiga.
As they come out they will join a parade that goes around their whole city. Each different group as they march around the cities, and towns, they are trying to hit the butt of a person. A tradition is the man in the costume is supposed to hit the women that are not hiding their butt from the man in costume. Whoever fails to hit any woman in the butt, it looks as the looser, and when machismo comes into play they are called homosexuals, or as they say “mujersita”, little woman. Carnaval sounds fun, but it is also a time of violence in the
country. In Navarrete, a rural town not too far from the major city of Santiago, I can picture a vivid image of a Sunday in my town will look like. In rural areas like mine, People do not work weekends, and those who do finish work before midday. After midday people will go to the only park in the heart of the town where a population of an amount of at least 3000 people gather up around the streets. Some are playing music straight from their cars; other people have a tambora, accordion, güira, and some sort of trumpet only use during the carnaval. People have competitions of music against each other, one in the car, while the other is playing live. The park gets filled with little kids wearing masks from the power rangers, Barbie, and the many others they like, running around trying to catch each other. The old people of Navarrete are often complaining about how their culture is dying in their own homeland. Music in the Dominican Republic should be treated more delicate because the culture of music of Palos, and merengue-tipico do not have the same attention anymore, and those genres are the true representatives of our Dominican music. American culture has influenced many of the singers today in the Dominican Republic to make music in a more American way. The music videos now carry more of a machismo theme different from the bachata videos from the past that were recorded based on a love story. During the Carnaval should be the time people try different music at the time and that is how new genres come about. However, the popularity of Dembow keeps growing and the younger generations only grows up hearing this type of music. I am interested in what will happen to the genre in 10 years? Where the popularity of Merengue and Bachata will be?
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