New York a Diversity Of Art and Music

New York is best known for the diversity of cultures. Which the majority have contributed to various factors, including music and art. Today music is part of each one of us. Often in New York City, as I take the train, I realize how people are wearing headphones while others play music on speaker. Music is something that can not be touch but it is an art that touches us. Art exists in all corners of New York City.

Is a fascinating experience as a city with so many cultures can build a calendar with space for each of them. New York is a city where diversity is celebrated. Each year countries from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico to Ecuador receive 2 or 3 days designated to celebrate their own heritage. A parade happens a designated day in which each country celebrate it culture with music, colors, flags and costumes. According to Jeffrey from the New York Times The Dominican heritage it’s celebrate in Manhattan from 36th to 52th Street with a lot of people waving red, blue and white flags, dancing music such as bachata, merengue and hip hop. In each parade that I have visited I have been able to appreciate different cultural values ​​such as art by producing the clothes, jewelry and the different genres of music that each culture presents. In the Dominican parade flag’s colored clothes and costumes from the carnival can be appreciated.

In this year I had the opportunity to visit the Dominican stop for the first time. I call her a little piece of my country. I could appreciate the kind of music that are almost extinct, because the teenagers genres. From my ancestors I came to say that the kind of music that the Dominican parade has (bachata and merengue) are the best compare to the new genres because it have a story to tell. Since nowadays the new genres of hip hop do not have to much to tell we can say that some cultural values ​​have been lost.

Work Cited

Mays, Jeffery C. “Dominican Parade in Manhattan Is Seen as ‘What America Is All About.’”The New York Times, 13 Aug. 2017,www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/nyregion/dominican-parade-in-manhattan-is-seen-as-what-america-is-all-about.html?_r=0. Accessed 4 Oct. 2017