Founded in 1992 at The City College of New York, the Dominican Studies Institute of the City University of New York is the first and only university-based research institute in the United States devoted to the study of people of Dominican descent.
Film, Video, Audio Collection
Fiestas de la Santa Cruz
Fiestas de la Santa Cruz. Santo Domingo, 1997-1998. Spanish. 15 Audio Cassettes. Photographs of the feasts are also available.
This is an Oral History Project about the Feast of the Holy Cross conducted by Maitreyi Villamán Matos in the Dominican Republic. The tapes include the following: La Aguita de Olivorio Mateo (Liborismo), Palma Sola, Entrevistas a Investigadores (Iván Domínguez, June Rosenberg, Lusitania Martínez, Norberto Artesario, and Dagoberto Tejada), Fiesta de Cruz en Nizao, Guayuma, Yamasá, Arroyo Sala'o Baní, Monteria, Boca De Arroyo, Rio Arriba (Baní), Fiestas a La Virgen de La Altagracia, Fiesta de La Virgen del Amparo (Los Morenos, Villa Mella). Novena de La Santa Lucia (Navajo en Medio, San Cristobal), Novena de La Salida de la Dolorita (Villa Mella), Sones, Batey "La Jagua", Ingenio Caei, San Cristóbal (Sones y Gagá), and Satsang With Sri Swami Satchidananda, The Holy Cross.
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