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MEDIA ADVISORY
April 22, 2012
Contact: Rosalinda Luna
Media & Marketing Coordinator
Latino Cultural Center
214.671.0049
Reggaeton Revolution Lecture at the LCC
The LCC Lectures Series continues on May 24, 2012
WHO: Ramiro Burr is an freelance music reporter, columnist, book author and top blogger covering rock/pop/country/Latin music. He is also an author, a Billboard correspondent and a free-lance music writer who has been published by Pulse, Rhythm Music, Cashbox, Latina, Performance and New Country Music magazines, as well as the Houston Chronicle and Austin Chronicle newspapers. His reviews have also appeared at Billboard.com, Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.
Through his experience, Burr has become a professional speaker whose insight and analysis of music, journalism, culture and the arts has been sought by colleges and civic groups including the Smithsonian Institution, Bowling Green University, University of Texas, the University of Houston, Texas A&M, DePaul, Southwest Texas State, Trinity, St. Marys and Rice universities and LULAC. In 2000, Burr was named the Speaker of the Year for the Hearst/Express-News volunteer corp. His provocative talks cover the urgency of literacy, the importance of the arts, the purpose of music, the politics of modern journalism and American pop culture. His insider’s view provides incisive, sometimes hard-hitting, but always amusing perspectives that challenge universal truths with philosophical questions.
WHAT: Ramiro Burr continues the LCC Lecture Series with a detailed look into the rising power of reggaeton as a musical genre. Fusing reggae, cumbia, dancehall and urban rap, reggaeton is at once familiar and yet radically new, becoming more common and simultaneously more controversial. Discussion and questions-and-answers will follow he lecture.
WHERE: Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak
Dallas, TX 75204
WHEN: May 24, 2012 @ 7 p.m., Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
DETAILS: This program was created in conjunction with American Sabor. Latino musicians have had a profound influence on traditional genres of music in the United States, including jazz, rhythm and blues, rock ’n’ roll and hip-hop. American Sabor, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian, presents the musical contributions of U.S. Latinos from the 1940s to the present, exploring the social history and individual creativity that produced stars like Tito Puente, Ritchie Valens, Celia Cruz, Carlos Santana and Selena.
The exhibition will be on view at the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas, TX, through June 17, 2012. Developed by EMP Museum and the University of Washington, and organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES), American Sabor will travel to 12 cities through 2015. The exhibition, its national tour and related programs are made possible by Ford Motor Company Fund.