Santo Domingo Blues: Los Tigueres de la Bachata

This is an excellent documentary about one of the Dominican Republic's form of music called Bachata. If you are interested in music history or just like music and want to know more about it, this is the film to watch. The director Alex Wolfe in his beautifully done film does not give opinions, he simple shows the points of view of the artists and their struggle to popularize the genre. He also talks to regular people on their opinion about bachata, whether they like it or not, and what it represents to them. This is an important film for a music genre that has been overlooked even though it's been around for over fifty years and is growing rapidly by the year. Bachata's popularity has stemmed from the fact that it is in a way the equivalent to blues in it's central themes of the "Average Joe's" heartbreak and disappointment in life and in the system. It's mostly what poor people listened to when it started and still listen to today. It's also been popularized in New York and the east coast where the biggest growing minority population is Dominicans, making it an even bigger success than it would have been otherwise.