Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
The word merengue designates a musical form extended through all the Caribbean. The first occurrences of merengue in print in Venezuela are from scores of “dance merengue” of the second-half of the 19th century . As a dance craze merengue acquired popularity in Caracas during the 1920s. It is important to distinguish this form from the vastly more popular Dominican Merengue.
