{"product_id":"bridging-sonic-borders-sharina-mallo-pozo-9781477331552","title":"Bridging Sonic Borders: Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican\/Dominicanyork Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers' identities and links the homeland to the diaspora.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Music has played a large role in recent Dominican literature, whether of the island or the diaspora. \u003ci\u003eBridging Sonic Borders\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Ma?llo-Pozo argues that literary representations of popular music delineate a shared aesthetic territory for US and Caribbean Dominicans, fostering an inclusive and transnational Dominicanidad. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Examining works written in Spanish, English, and Dominicanish, Ma?llo-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 on the life of rocker Luis \"Terror\" D?as have emphasized the in-between identity of being both Dominican and a New Yorker. Collectively, these writings have created a space in which boundaries of nation and diaspora are revealed for their fundamental porosity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharina Ma?llo-Pozo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477331557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477331552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Sharina Ma?llo-Pozo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465671004415,"sku":"9781477331552","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a5395f38-2048-43c3-9661-9e58fc6cce23.jpg?v=1736346941","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bridging-sonic-borders-sharina-mallo-pozo-9781477331552","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}