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Ministry of Culture recognizes legendary singer Frank Cruz<\/STRONG>. Minister Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez announces that he is working on the implementation of a law declaring Merengue as a cultural heritage of the Dominican Republic<\/STRONG> T<\/SPAN>he Ministry of Culture (MINC) recognized legendary singer Frank Cruz at a ceremony where the Minister of Culture, songwriter and singer Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez,affirmedthat state agency is working on the implementation of a law that declares Merengue as National Heritage.<\/P> In this regard, he said that the government of President Danilo Medina sponsors the implementation of a true educational revolution that will impact the cultural development of the country. He also spoke about the content of the government program aimed at valuing culture and everything that is Dominican.<\/P> On the Thursday of the Traveling Culture<\/EM>, organized by MINC\u2019s Directorate of Space Projects, a plaque was also presented to RepresentativeV\u00edctor S\u00e1nchez, who put forward the law that protects Merengue.<\/P> Rodr\u00edguez noted that, as established in Article 3 of said document, MINCis the Ministry responsible for the promotion, dissemination and expansion of Merengue; therefore, it has already held meetings with members of the artistic world for the purpose of planning activities in this regard. <\/P> These meetings have been held with Johnny Ventura, Kinito M\u00e9ndez and other artists. Rodr\u00edguez also informed that it is a very open law, in the sense that many rhythms fall into this category.<\/P> According to him, the Ministry of Culture has been charged withdetermining the groups that would benefit from the implementation of the law, and in this regard he has met with officials from the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications, as this institution has also to do with the subject matter.<\/P> He also spoke about the situation resulting from the poor quality of the lyrics and compositions of some performers of urban rhythms. He attributes this situation to the lack of education of these young people.<\/P> In this regard, he said that the government of President Danilo Medina sponsors the implementation of a true educational revolution that will impact the cultural development of the country. He also spoke about the content of the government program aimed at valuing culture and everything that is Dominican.<\/P> Those who attended the meeting included the members of Grupo Tierra Seca;comedian Wilson D\u00edaz; Susana Silfa, wife ofpublic media broadcaster Yaqui N\u00fa\u00f1ez del Risco, and saxophonist Crisp\u00edn Fern\u00e1ndez, among others.<\/P> The law was drafted by Mr. V\u00edctor S\u00e1nchez, and it states that it is essential to preserve and promote national music in order to ensure its development and protection within the Dominican society, with a view to promoting its historical continuity and the cultural identity of the Dominican people.<\/P> Merengue is the quintessential musical rhythm that identifies the country throughout the world. It was created 150 years ago, on November 26, 1854, when the word Merengue first appeared published in the Oasisnewspaper, which proved the existence of this musical rhythm in the Dominican social and cultural reality.<\/P> The Minister of Culture, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez, and Manuel Fr\u00edas presenta diploma to veteran singer Frank Cruz<\/P><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Minister of Culture, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez, and Manuel Fr\u00edas presenta diploma to veteran singer Frank Cruz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Santo Domingo, July 23th<\/SUP>, 2014<\/P>
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