Bridging Sonic Borders. Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature recovers and visibilizes Dominican/dominicanyork writings. It foregrounds how the literary production of the last three decades relates to Dominicans’ migratory movements to the United States and considers the impact that translocation and access to US American popular culture and new technologies have had in the rewriting of literary history in Dominican and US Latinx literary traditions. Through the foregrounding of the understudied intersections between popular music and literature by canonical and noncanonical authors who write from different geographical locations and different generations, and whose works are written in Spanish, English, and Dominicanish, Bridging Sonic Borderlands prompts further thinking about the effects of cultural interactions between the Dominican Republic and New York City in the consolidation of an alternative cultural archive that extends its geographical borders to account for island and diasporic Dominicans’ understanding of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and other intersections of identity. Thus, the book centers overlooked aspects of dominicanidad through narratives that have been excluded and silenced in Dominican and US cultural histories. Bridging Sonic Borderlands is not an exhaustive study of transnational and Latinx Dominican literature. Rather, through a comparative approach, the book highlights key connections between the literary corpuses from both spaces that utilize popular music to articulate alternative scripts of dominicanidad. This study demonstrates that the link between popular music and literature in Dominican/dominicanyork literary production plays a major role in epistemological shifts in contemporary Dominican literature: new aesthetics and nuevos saberes (new ways of knowing).