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        1. (born at Santiago, Cuba, in ), which appears in Las artes en Santiago de A Merengue, attributed to Juan Bautista Alfonseca, has survived as a.
        2. Comparisons and Conclusions for Part One. 1.
        3. Juan Bautista Alfonseca is born.
        4. Singling out merengue for canonization allowed a “selective tradition” to be “passed off as the tradition” (Williams ).




          5. Juan Bautista Alfonseca(1810-1875) 

          Juan was a self-taught composer born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  He was the earliest known Dominican composer of merengue.  Although he lacked musical training he was known as the “father of Dominican music”.  In, 1846 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and he led the first military band and participated in the battles against Haitian rule to lift the spirits of the soldiers with their music.  He composed classics and his music reached a wide audience because it was associated with local culture (Juana Quilina; El sancocho; Ay  Coco!) (Encaribe.com, 2010).  He wrote the country’s first National Anthem which he made it a mangulina, not a merengue.

            His music served to make people forget the effects of economic and social crisis of 1857 (El que tiene mil pesos no baila = Who does not have thousand dollars does not dance) (Encaribe.com, 2010).   His work also includ