The Organological Evolution of Vallenato: Membranophones and Idiophones
The Organological Evolution of Vallenato: Membranophones and Idiophones
Author(s): Juan Gabriel De La Rosa López, Yecid Gafit Acevedo Durán, Víctor Alfonso Gómez López, Jorge Enrique Ferreira Sarmiento, Loren Mileth Pulido Daza, José Reimundo Méndez FonsecaSubject(s): Music, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Organology; vallenata box; guacharaca; musical notation; music education; Intangible Cultural Heritag; Special Safeguarding Plan (PES);
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the organological evolution of two percussion instruments representative of vallenato: the caja and the guacharaca. By means of a qualitative methodology of a descriptive-analytical type, the morphological, acoustic and technicalinterpretative transformations of these membranophones and idiophones are explored, as well as their progressive incorporation into musical reading and writing systems. The analysis also contemplates its pedagogical and cultural resignification in the field of contemporary artistic training. The systematization of these processes contributes to the consolidation of traditional musical knowledge from an academic perspective, in articulation with the principles of the Special Plan for the Safeguarding (PES) of vallenato, as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Journal: Journal of Posthumanism
- Issue Year: 5/2025
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 5038-5049
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
