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#DSBC- Bridging Sonic Borders

Thu, Sep 18

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Join us to discuss Bridging Sonic Borders: Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature by Sharina Maillo Pozo

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#DSBC- Bridging Sonic Borders
#DSBC- Bridging Sonic Borders

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Sep 18, 2025, 7:00 PM

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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…

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