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09-10-2010, 01:00 PM
Centro Leon has announced the celebration of the 4th Congress on International Music, Identity and Culture in the Caribbean (MIC IV) from 15-17 April 2011 at Centro Leon in Santiago. A series of related activities will precede the congress, beginning next month. This year the congress will be dedicated to Jazz from a Caribbean Perspective. Previous conferences have analyzed merengue, son, salsa and bolero. The event is being sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, the Centro Cultural Eduardo Leon Jimenes and the Institute of Caribbean Studies.
The Centro Leon recently released a new book "Bolero in Caribbean Culture and its Universal Projection 2010". The book compiles conferences, talks, and testimonies from the III Congress on International Music, Identity and Culture in the Caribbean held at Centro Leon in April 2009.
For more on upcoming and ongoing events, see http://www.dr1.com/calendar

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