Bachata

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Bachata is the Dominican Republic's guitar music of heartbreak, born in the bars and brothels of the 1960s and dismissed for decades as música de amargue, the music of bitterness. Its lilting requinto lead, bongo, and güira carried songs of longing that the elite scorned until Juan Luis Guerra's Bachata Rosa made it respectable in 1990 and Aventura made it global. UNESCO inscribed it as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2019, and it is now one of the most danced genres on earth.

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