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The guitar-based music known as bachata was born in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s. Brought to the U.S. by Dominican migrants, it has continually developed to reflect the changing tastes of fans and musicians. Bachata became increasingly popular among younger Dominican Americans in the 1990s and 2000s. This generation of artists reshaped the music, blending multiple genres with Spanish and English lyrics to reflect their multicultural reality. In this book, 27 artists share their personal and collective insights into how modern bachata provides an intimate representation of what it means to be Dominican, Latino, multicultural, and bilingual in a transnational setting.

The accomplishments of Juan Luis Guerra, including the success of the 1990 release \"Bachata Rose,\" which sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide, are discussed. The title of the recording refers to a genre of Dominican popular music.

In 1997, Fulanito, a group of young Dominicans raised in Upper Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, released a recording calledEl Hombre Mas Famoso de la Tierra (The Most Famous Man on Earth).¹ The images on the front cover, inside flap, and disc show the five members of the band posing dramatically in chic, tropical gangster-style white suits and fedoras (see Figure 5.1). The image on the back cover, in contrast, features five stick figures fashioned of multicolored neon tubes, whose tourist-shop, doll-like heads are topped by the easily recognizable straw hats associated with the Dominican peasantry (see Figure 5.2). These

Latin musicians who broke into the mainstream charts, such as Ricky Martin, sang in English, often in duets with Anglo \"gatekeeper\" stars. That still happens. But another, swaggeringly confident, bicultural market is taking shape. Aventura is a Latino boy-band from the Bronx in New York. After going solo, Aventura's lead singer, Romeo Santos, has sold out Madison Square Gardens in New York and filled arenas in such Mexican strongholds as Los Angeles--a once unthinkable feat for a bachata artist of Dominican-Puerto Rican stock. His single \"Propuesta Indecente\" is unknown to most Anglo-Americans, but has been viewed on YouTube more than 600m times. Even traditional bands have seen their markets transformed by new migration flows to the Great Plains, Midwest and deep South.