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• 04 / 16 / 2007

Cuba will attend the 2nd International Congress of Music, Identity and Culture in the Caribbean that will gather researchers and artists from four continents in the Dominican Republic starting Friday 13.

Dominican State Secretary of Culture Jose Rafael Lantigua highlighted that this years event is dedicated to Son and Salsa and its celebration April 13-15 at Leon Center in Santiago de los Caballeros, 166 kilometers from Santo Domingo, Prensa Latina informed.

Besides the hosts and Cuba, the event will see the participation of delegations from Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, United States, as well as lecturers from Panama, Brazil, Senegal, Japan, Spain, France, Mexico, Uruguay and Germany.

Organized by the State Secretariat of Culture, the "Eduardo Leon Jimenes" Cultural Center and the Institute for Caribbean Studies (INEC), the Congress includes the delivery of three master lectures.

On Friday 13, Cuban María Teresa Linares, renowned musicologist and vice president of the Fernando Ortiz Foundation, will deliver the first lecture entitled "The original elements of son in the Caribbean and its relationship with other genres in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Cuba".

On Saturday 14, laureate Cuban musicologist Danilo Orozco will lecture on "Sonexus Caribbus. Vaivén y sentir de sones, sus conexos y del Caribe en trama".

On Sunday 15, Puerto Rican Angel G. Quintero, author of the book "Salsa, taste and control! sociology of tropical music", which was awarded the 1998 Casa de las Americas Prize, will approach the theme "Salsa, Son, Nation and Migration".

Other international lecturers announced were Cubans Cristobal Diaz, Olavo Alen and Miriam Ruiz, music dean of the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, Saul Escalona and Alejandro Calzadilla (Venezuela); Ángel Quintero and Errol L. Montes (Puerto Rico); Edwin Ricardo Pitre-Vasquez (Panama); Alejandro Ulloa, Marcela Edith Quintero y Pablo Delvalle(Colombia).

Completing the list of participants are Benjamín Lapidus, Ted Henken, Sydney Hutchinson, Priscilla Renta, Juliet McMains, Julie A. Sellers and Jerry W. Carlson (United States); Noriko Manabe and Kengo Iwanaga (Japan) and Mamadou Badiane (Africa).