History and origins of the Bachata
The bachata is a popular dance music originating in the Dominican Republic. It is considered a hybrid of Bolero (especially the bolero rhythm) with other influences such as the hallway, huapango , and Son Cubano, among others.
In the recent past, was dismissed as lower-class music, and was known as "music of bitterness." It was scarcely heard in radio stations (with the exception of a few). But the interest arose From the 80, with the expansion of mass communication , with the rise of tourism, and the effort of some composers who were a genre that had emerged differential expression of the popular. Authors such as Juan Luis Guerra and Victor Victor in the 90, and Luis Dias on 80, provided a different view of this musical expression that articulated with the urban marginal. The expansion of tourism in the Dominican Republic from the 80's, won him popularity, and became a genre that has penetrated all levels and areas of the country and internationally.
The so-called Latin American bolero rhythmic of the 30 to 50 entered the popular taste of the Dominicans. These boleros mixed with other Latin American expressions that were popular in the 50's in the Dominican Republic (the Mexican corrido, the hupango , the Cuban bolero, the hall, the waltz, etc.), and was the singing authors and singers like Julio Jaramillo million and Olimpo Cárdenas (Ecuador); Paquitín Soto, Odilio González (El Jibarito de Lares, the Cock of Manatee José Antonio Salamán , Felipe Rodrigues and Daniel Santos (from Puerto Rico); Rolando Lasserie , Bienvenido Granda , Orlando Contreras , Celio González, Orlando Vallejo and Antonio Machin (Cuba); Guthier Cardenas, Luis and Tony Aguilar, and Cuco Sánchez (Mexico) and Felipe Pirela (Venezuela) who inspired popular musicians like José Manuel Calderón, Tomy Figueroa, Inocencio Cruz, and Rafael Encarnación, to articulate a proper expression of the Dominican Republic in the 1960's.
Music Jose Manuel Calderon was popular not only for its beautiful letters but also for his great interpretive power and the feeling conveyed in his songs. Calderon racked up many successes in his career such as "Human Snake," "Moon," "Save me " and more. At this time, Rafael Encarnación captivated the fans of this rhythm, but his career was cut short by his death in a car accident, which only lasted less than two years in show business.
might think that at this early stage, Bachata was a marginal music. Just heard on the so-called cabarets or brothels. However, it was part of a cultural machinery was supported by a record label home local station also had a national character: The Guarachita . The company encouraged and spread this music to consumption of these marginal social groups, migrants from the countryside to the city and that with the fall of the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo , sparked population sub-urban Dominican cities .
A second stage seems to be referring to the appearance of a second generation of singers who were promoted by the producer. He was raised and voices like those of Luis Segura, Mélida Rodriguez ("the suffering") and Leonardo Paniagua , which constitute part of an expression that bloomed in the 70's and 80's, when declining in favor of more refined expressions of bachata using electronic instrumentation, mergers with other modern expressions of music (like the experiments of Luis Days with other Caribbean rhythms and Dominicans). Luis Segura
could be called the father of this second stage. Her hit "sorry for you" in the early 80's opened another page in the history of this rhythm. That song's popularity grew at a rate that was not welcome necessary to become an expression of its own merits. From this success, he was stripped of this musical expression the aura of shame that generated no popular classes.
A third stage appears to be constituted by the emergence of forms scanned to record bachata, the introduction of other rhythms and instruments, and a new sense of poetry, whose letters are not accentuated, as in previous phases, the erotic sexual double meaning, the insinuation of an imaginary based on the concrete, but a pursuit of poetic verses developed, refined literary image, but nevertheless to appeal to the sense that he had led: expressions of love, heartbreak, nostalgia and lifestyle given where the woman is original source of love and desire.
At this stage, Bachata is internationalized, and charges an unprecedented boom. Completely disappears and Guarachita station. The figure of the entrepreneur and promoter of international art and artists of bachata become the idol of multitudes. Voices like Teodoro Reyes, Joe Veras, Luis Vargas, Anthony Santos, Yoskar Sarante , Raulin Rodriguez , Zechariah Ferreiras , among others, are the hosts of the new stars of the genre. Appear duets ( Monchy and Alexandra ) and groups (group Aventura), which are part of the new generation of artists, some not-born in the Dominican Republic. The Bachata
reproduces the same spirit melancholic, nostalgic and loving animosity from other Latin American musical expressions as the so-called tango-song of the neighborhoods of the city of Buenos Aires, where they combined the passionate animosity (Love- indifference) with the nostalgia of migrant . As in the Bachata know this nostalgia musical expression due to the fact that this coincided with the peak period of culture sub-urban from rural-urban migration since 1961. In this period became known as "Music of Bitterness" by evoking the nostalgic sense.
In the early stages, much of the local musical artists rejected the as bachata genre or style, but now renowned artists have dabbled in this genre bachatas recording and interpreting in
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