SUMMARY
1- A Panorama of Dominican Folk Religion and its Music
2- Afro-Dominican Religious Brotherhoods and their Palos Music
3- Case Study of an Afro-Dominican Cofradía: The Brotherhood of St. John the Baptist of Baní and its "Sarandunga"
4- The Dominican Saint's Festival and its Music
5- The Drum Dance [Baile de Palos]
6- Transnational Dominican Palos Music
Musical examples
Sources
Sources
1. A Panorama of Dominican Folk Religion and its Music
Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History, Vol. 2.: Performing the Caribbean Experience. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007, pp. 217-236.
2003
Video: "Papá Liborio: el santo vivo de Maguana" (56 mins., available at mardavis03@yahoo.com and at Médiathèque Caraïbe).
2000
“Dominican Republic” in Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy, eds., The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (Taylor and Francis), pp. 97-115.
2. Afro-Dominican Religious Brotherhoods and their Palos Music
Davis, Martha Ellen
1976
Afro-Dominican Religious Brotherhoods : Structure, Ritual, and Music. Ph.D. dissertation in anthropology, University of Illinois.
Larrazábal Blanco, Carlos
1967
Los negros y la esclavitud en Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo: Postigo. Colección "Pensamiento Dominicano," No. 35.
4. The Dominican Saint's Festival and its Music
Davis, Martha Ellen
2007
"Oral Musical Traditions of the Dominican Republic", in Malena Kuss, ed., Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History, Vol. 2.: Performing the Caribbean Experience. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 189-215.
2007
"Vodú of the Dominican Republic: Devotion to 'La Veintiuna División,'" Afro-
Hispanic Review, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Spring), pp. 75-90.
1994
"'Bi-Musicality' in the Cultural Configurations of the Caribbean," Black Music Research Journal 14:2, Fall 1994, pp. 145-160.
"Bi-musicalité dans la musique “traditionnelle” de la Caraïbe," Laméca.org, juillet 2003, http://www.lameca.org/dossiers-et-articles/bi-musicalite-dans-la-musique-traditionnelle-de-la-caraibe/
5. The Drum Dance [Baile de Palos]
Davis, Martha Ellen
1976
Afro-Dominican Religious Brotherhoods: Structure, Ritual, and Music. Ph.D. dissertation in anthropology, University of Illinois, 1976, pp. 307-332.
6.Transnational Dominican Palos Music
Davis, Martha Ellen
1994
"Music and black ethnicity in the Dominican Republic," in Gerard H. Béhague, ed., Music and black ethnicity: the Caribbean and South America. University of Miami, North-South Center. New York: Transaction, pp. 119-155.
Pacini Hernández, Deborah
1991
"La lucha sonora: Dominican popular music in the post-Trujillo era." Latin American Music Review, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall-Winter), pp. 105-123.
Sánchez-Carretero, Cristina
2005
"Santos and misterios as channels of communication in the diaspora: Afro-Dominican religious practices abroad," Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 118, No. 469, pp. 308-326.
Smithsonian Folkways
2004
Audio CD: "Quisqueya en el Hudson: Dominican music in New York." Smithsonian Folkways SFW 40495.
Van Buren, Tom and Leonardo Iván Domínguez
2004
"Transnational music and dance in Dominican New York." In Dominican migration: Transnational perspectives. Ernesto Sagas and Sintia E. Molina, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, pp. 244-274.