Merengue has ROOTS in PUERTO RICO!!!

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Subiendo

[RepublicadePR]

Originally posted by BEECHO
Merengue is a very argued subject between latin music maestros but theres a couple of things that most agree own:

1. Merengue came to the Dominican Rep. via Puerto Rico. (By plantation workers moving throug the islands and if they came to Dom. Rep. from PR they brought Plena and UPA with them)

2. Merengue and Plena are very similar music and dances, to the extreme that if you pay close atention to the instruments and how the Plena is played you would confused it with Merengue.
I did a test once by testing my girlfriend that loves Merengues and she knows what Merengue is. I put a couple of Plenas while we dancing in my house one day and she continued to dance it thinking it was Merengue.

But to prove my point that Merengue has ROOTS/ORIGINS in Puerto Rico, (PLENA)please go to these pages:

(IT DOES NOT TAKE A ROCKET GENIUS TO MAKE THE CONNECTION)
www.cspvrde.edu/homes/castillo/merengue.htm#origin
www.mindspring.com/~adiascar/musica/merhst-s.htm
www.prfdance.org/plena.htm

Merengue page.cjbnet

Negativo, el Merengue fué originalmente música Haitiana, que surgió de una mezcla de la música francesa con la africana. Se traslado a la Rep. Dominicana, y fué introducida a Puerto Rico por primera vez via el conjunto Quisquella.

Aun que en PR existían ritmos parecidos por la herencia africana este genero, que nos gusta mucho y lo disfrutamos en verdad nace del Haitiano.

La salsa es otro cuento.

[RepublicadePR]

Originally posted by IDeJesus
Beecho is correct about merengue being influenced by Puerto Rico's Bomba and Plena during its early stages. We're talking 200 years ago, people. This doesn't make merengue any less dominican. Music in the Caribbean, generally has been influenced by all srts of ethnic groups. The Caribbean is not so big and the slave ships from Portugal, Spain and England made stops in every Island. The biggest contribution to music in the Caribbean however is of African brought to the ccaribbean as slaves. Let's give credit where credit is due.
Now I think that Beecho and E should kiss and make up.

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Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre.

De acuerdo, aún que hemos influenciado mucha música y arte en el mundo, no se puede negar que el merengue es autóctona de lo que se conocía como Hispañola, mayormente de la parte francesa.

[dulceAMOR]

BOY!!! EITHER U WERE BUZZZED UP WHEN U HEARD THAT MUSIC AND COMPARED IT OR U HAVE AN OLD RADIO, CHECK IT OUT. IT MAY BE BROKEN OR SOMETHING.