Did the Merengue Music are in Crisis?

Santo Domingo, Rep. Dominican 6 of August 2007

Are the incognito question that nobody wants to respond, but all want to murmur,  This in crisis the Merengue?  IYes!

Possibly it is music, can be the publishers, the taxes that are ordering the fiscal disorder with noncustomers conditions, the author right that do not let breathe to anybody in the presentations, no longer is musa in that to be inspired, the local schedule does not allow that the dances are developed in the time, anyone of these excuses, pardon hypothesis, shows to the reality of our music national emblem.

We are in the musical step of merengue of street (urban music or of suburb),  but as merengue of street? The one of refranes humorous of the Coco Band at the end of the 80, the one of trabalenguas of Kinito Méndez in beginning of the 90, Nothing of that, we are before the refranero of the mutilation of the language, of the expression I saw syllable, we are in the presence of a SLANG that single understands social layers to it, that marginalized or no, they feel totally identified with this music and its letter, which equal to the rapidity of their dance, has disassembled that merengue step to be from hall to merengue of sidewalk and contén.

The works of the traditional merengueros are made feel timidly in the local radio, interpretations that take to a deep thought and refresh the inspiration of musa, subjects that perfectly can be placed in the list of the name ones of Casandra 2008 (although the Bachata of the year 2007 without doubts already this choosing by the town “Me Voy” (El Anillo) of Héctor Acosta, with the responsibility of Anthony “Romeo” Santos, the minimum investment to require to prepare a musical production goes up to around the 500.000 pesos (15.150 USD to a rate of 33 x 1) without commenting of the payola (programmers) which it has astronomical numbers (in a next delivery the detail arrived).

The locals producers  in their eagerness to create business options have created the economic version of the CD of audio of the local musical albums, which with timid success have solved an accessibility problem and putting the things to him but just a little bit difficult to the piracy, which in the country, as in countries of the hemisphere takes a high slice of the pie without paying the wills, nor the responsibility rights.

But it is needed more, is needed integration the Publisher  to the concerts and artistic presentations of you interpret them, thus to be able to guarantee its investments and the rate of profit, which in the present conditions this very far, being able presenting/displaying in the future spectacles of merengue in each presentation of a local artist.

I say it with such emphasis, because the rapers, yet and their braces  in their songs, worse present/display in each performance a spectacle, that each interpretation of its music overflows with adrenalin, and even, with a block unit that in camera even pretends division, sleep all the nights in the same bed,

In opposition to the locals who except for the intensity of the ambitious project of Henry Jiménez, in “This is Merengue”, will not be able to be enjoyed in a platform all together ones by these moments. But there are mentioned cases even less, at the present time it does not exist merenguero some that less sustains the price of a ticket by 1.500 or 2.000 pesos (45 to 60 dollars) in an entrance of a common and SINGLE dance, meet up to 3 merengueros and the Ticket does not raise of 1.500, but so that, simple they have not obtained the eccentricity of I generate and when some dare to give the condition of spectacle to their performances, it criticizes it puts them by the 4 corners, with total spirit to ridicule them.

Solution (between so many), merengue needs the UNION, the real UNION, of merengueros, programmers, publisher, musical promoters, whom the musical quality takes to him to the confidence to the fanatics maintaining, where can accede to its music and them, elevating this way the quality in presentation-spectacle, where this offers l him