Use of literary figures in Dembow’s compositions

Abstract

This research study takes music and its literary input as a reference, in addition to its social content, in this case, the dembow that was consolidated in the Dominican Republic from the second decade of the century. XXI with exponents such as Monkey Black, Secreto, El Mayor, El Alfa, Mozart la Para, La Materialista and Pablo Piddy. For this descriptive study, a checklist was drawn up with literary figures classified into phonics, thought and tropes, then the instrument was applied to each of the ten songs selected under the criteria of time, genre and visits on You Tube. This was made with the objective of characterizing the use of literary figures in the selected dembows. The study concludes that dembow is a literary expression in substance and form, due to the use of figures and its persuasive content, its consumers are exclusive and its lexical heritage is limited, for this reason they use figures of repetition more frequently. Finally, it should be instructed so that the songs have more literature and less transgressive content, due to their influence on the thinking of young people in the Dominican Republic.