By Sydney Hutchinson

ISBN-10: 022640532X

ISBN-13: 9780226405322

ISBN-10: 022640546X

ISBN-13: 9780226405469

Tigers of a distinct Stripe takes readers contained in the detailed global of merengue típico, a standard song of the Dominican Republic. whereas in such a lot genres of Caribbean song girls often take part as dancers or vocalists, in merengue típico they're extra usually instrumentalists or even bandleaders—something approximately extraordinary within the macho Caribbean tune scene. interpreting this cultural phenomenon, Sydney Hutchinson bargains an unforeseen and interesting account of gender in Dominican artwork and life.

           

Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork within the Dominican Republic and manhattan between musicians, enthusiasts, and consumers of merengue típico—not to say her personal stories as a feminine instrumentalist—Hutchinson information a fancy nexus of sophistication, race, and inventive culture that unsettles the common binary among the masculine and female. She sketches the portrait of the vintage male determine of the tíguere, a dandified yet sexually competitive and street-smart “tiger,” and she or he exhibits how woman musicians have constructed a female counterpart: the tíguera, an assertive, sensual, and revered girl determine who appears like a girl yet frequently performs or even sings like a guy. via those musical figures and reviews of either immediately and queer performers, she unveils wealthy ambiguities in gender development within the Dominican Republic and the lengthy historical past of a distinct kind of Caribbean feminism.

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