Cuba is preparing a file addressed to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco)for the purpose of declaring the they are cuban as Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
The specialist of the Research and Development Center of the Cuban musicYurien Heredia, confirmed that his institution is currently working on several texts written by scholars of that musical expression to achieve the candidacy and subsequent selection, he refers an office from the agency Latin Press (PL).
According to Heredia, regarding the celebration of Son Day on May 8, the team that works on the subject selected five materials that derive from research on the sonero movement and its generic variety in the Caribbean nation, the information points out.
The media specifies that these articles will begin to appear from May 6 in the cultural magazine The Jiribilla and the order of publication responds to the date they were written and the stage to which they refer.
According to the scholar, one of the works collects research carried out by the teacher Argeliers León, who was the creator of the Musicology career at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) of Cuba, underlines the medium.
Another of the materials that will see the light is dedicated to the album sonphonicproduced by Manolito Simonet and which, as its name suggests, takes the son to the symphonic Orchestra hand in hand with ISA students and consecrated creators of popular and concert music.
In addition, an interview with the tres player and leader of the Son Latino group, Yaima Blanco, will be published, showing her link with that sound from her birth to her professional projection and her most recent record production For my threeyes, add PL.
Remember the report that the Cuban son reached the category of Cultural Heritage of the Nation in 2012, during the celebration of the MatamoroSon Festival in the province of Santiago de Cuba, and during a tribute to great exponents of the genre.
Now Cuba is looking for a place on the prestigious list selected by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage of UNESCO, which already has the Cuban Point, the French Tomb and the Rumba on its list, the agency points out.
The announcement coincides with the celebration in Santiago of MatamoroSon, after eight years of absence. The event, which will take place from May 5 to 9, will enhance the presentation of the sonero septets and will pay tribute to the Cuban Son Day and to the maestro Adalberto Alvarezwho died last year as a result of COVID-19.
