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Santo Domingo, December 19, 2019 \u2013 Upon hearing the news that the U.N. Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) had declared Bachata music and dance as a patrimony of humanity, Dominican Minister of Culture Eduardo Selman stated that the country is thrilled with the decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis decision will strengthen the identity of Dominicans throughout the world.\u00a0 <\/span>We are thrilled with this decision,\u201d expressed Minister Selman after the news was officially announced by the U.N. organization.\u00a0 <\/span>The decision was adopted during a UNESCO meeting in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia.<\/p>\n Minister Selman also stated that the time to recognize the creativity of Dominican musicians had finally arrived.\u00a0 <\/span>For decades, local talent has successfully developed the sounds that today characterize Dominican music throughout the world.<\/p>\n He also stated that all Dominicans should be congratulated because they were the ones that created a unique style of dancing Bachata music.\u00a0 <\/span>The Bachata sound is a rhythm charged with enthusiasm and sensuality, captivating thousands of music lovers throughout the world.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have the Merengue, also declared a Patrimony of Humanity, and today we have the honor of receiving the news that the Bachata has also been distinguished with this honor.\u00a0 <\/span>They are two great rhythms, extremely popular in our country, that have managed to cross our borders and captivate the world.\u00a0 <\/span>This is a way of projecting our possibilities of success in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n He also explained that UNESCO made its decision to declare Bachata a patrimony of humanity because \u201cit is a musical expression that is danced to and concluded that the Bachata \u201cis a musical rhythm and dance that is always present in community events or in social gatherings.\u201d<\/p>\n The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage met in the capital city of Colombia, where it made its decision.\u00a0 <\/span>A Dominican delegation, headed by Dominican UNESCO Ambassador Jose Antonio Rodriguez, participated in the meeting.\u00a0 <\/span>Both Minister Selman and Ambassador Rodriguez had worked arduously to have the Bachata declared a patrimony of humanity.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Santo Domingo, December 19, 2019 \u2013 Upon hearing the news that the U.N. Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) had declared Bachata music and dance as a patrimony of humanity, Dominican Minister of Culture Eduardo Selman stated that the country is thrilled with the decision. \u201cThis decision will strengthen the identity of Dominicans throughout … Continue reading “Minister of Culture States: \u201cUNESCO\u2019s Decision to Declare Bachata Music as a Patrimony of Humanity Makes All Dominicans Proud”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15098,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074\/revisions\/15098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}