How does the Dominican Republic Republic’s Culture Effect Its Music, Architecture, and Tourism is the topic for my essay. Some of the highlights of my research is I found out was slaves brought over music. In the 1500s, colonists started importing African slaves to Hispaniola from Spain due to the Spanish monarch’s permission. The slaves were forced to work in sugar plantations, African slaves suffered constant abuse, brutal conditions, and even early death just for sugar. Although slaves were worked to death they also made and brought their own music and dances. Music was brought into African beliefs, ceremonies, beats and even worship as they crossed the ocean. Where ever sugar canes grew and where Africans were working there was music. Each music had its own rhythm, form of beat, song, along with its own dance. This became the first step to the sugar-music history. African slaves brought music, created songs, and blended traditions as they traveled through sugar lands from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and even the British Islands.
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