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The merengue is salsa's cousin and today is heard mostly as big band dance music. When it started out, however, it represented the gentler sounds of Haiti and went on to be popular in the Dominican Republic in the 1930s. Tommy Pearson looks at the history of merengue and reveals how it produces some of the hottest Latin music around.

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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