LA MÚSICA CARRANGUERA, EL CAMPO Y LA IDENTIDAD CAMPESINA: VARIACIONES Y CONTINUIDADES DE UN PATRIMONIO CULTURAL

Abstract

The article questions, from the field of cultural heritage, the representations of the countryside and peasants made from the Carranguera music typical of the central Colombian region with the aim of identifying  variations and continuities in the transmission of this musical tradition. From a narrative analysis, it resorts to a corpus of  lyrics composed by contemporary performers to identify recurring themes in the songs and the elaborations that are built on them, producing representations around the peasant identity, the territory and its universe of significance. It concludes that, despite mobilizing ideas elaborated by modernist elites at the beginning of the 20th century about the peasantry as a deprived, unwilling and underdeveloped being, there are lines of flight that confront such narratives from the idea of a dignified peasant, caretaker of nature, concerned about the problems of the country and claiming a position as part of the official Colombian history.