Farewell to beloved LASC member, ALAS advisor, and super-mentor, Claudia
Lopez Claudia is off to Angola soon, and you are invited to attend a
farewell  reception on Friday, January 13 from 3-5pm in 212 MacMillan
Hall.  Food and  beverages provided.


Salsa Picante with Rice and Beans!  Celebrate and sample Caribbean music, 
dance and food. Wednesday, January 18 at 5:30 p.m. in MMH 212

Latin American dance music has become a part of mainstream American 
culture, but where does it come from?  What are its roots? What makes it 
Latin American? How can we judge its “Latin American-ness?”  A
presentation  by ethnomusicologist Thomas Garcia focuses on some of the
most important  Latin dance forms *Mambo, Salsa, Son, Danzón, Rumba,
Merengue* and seeks to  explain the origins and influences that drove the
development of these  genres, including issues and influences such as race
and slavery, African  religious and dance music, European melody, harmony
and instruments,  Spanish Colonial and indigenous cultures, revolution and
resolution,  migration and immigration, all combining to create exciting
musical and  dance traditions.  Through musical examples and images, these
issues and  this music will be explored.  Included in the presentation is
a live dance  demonstration by Alexandra Anaya, an accomplished dancer and
Latin dance  teacher, and a full Cuban meal of fried Cuban sandwiches,
pork carnita with  fried yuca and plantains, ropa vieja over white rice,
moros y cristianos,  with virgin cocktails, mojitos, and pina coladas.

The program is an educational warm-up event for the Friday, February 3, 
Latin Night Tiempo Libre  Latin Dance Hall Extravaganza! Tiempo Libre was 
Grammy 2005 Nominated to Best Salsa/Merengue Album for Arroz con Mango, 
7:30 p.m. Millett Hall (Oxford campus). (Tiempo Liebre CDs will be 
distributed at the January 18 program). For more information, please call 
the Center for American and World Cultures, 9-8309 or visit the website, 
http://www.muohio.edu/cawc to learn more about Tiempo Libre and curricular
 connections.



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