Pa'lo Monte

Pa'lo Monte is an urban roots music group that fuses the traditional African-rooted rhythms of the Dominican Republic with contemporary funky musical styles for a unique and new Dominican Beat.

Pa’lo Monte is an additional example of the ways Dominicans in the diaspora along with Dominicans in the island have destabilized the state’s notions of Dominican identity. Pa’lo Monte seeks to decenter whiteness in the racial imaginary of the Dominican Republic and promote the African and Indigenous heritage and ancestry that has been expunged from the “official” Dominican narrative.