Fiestas tradicionales y construcción de identidades.La música en la Semana Santa de Mompox y las Corralejas de San Juan Nepomuceno, Bolívar, Colombia

Résumé

Popular traditional celebrations constitute a way of approaching the recognition of cultures. Through them, it is possible to observe identity, historical, material and ideational features of a given population, due to the fact that these expressions do not take place outside their context. It is for this reason that this work approaches festive events such as the Holy Week of Mompox and the Fiestas de Corralejas of San Juan Nepomuceno that take place in the Department of Bolívar: two of the popular traditional celebrations that make up identity topics of the Caribbean Region of Colombia inherited from “the Motherland”. The religious and the bullfighting, are valued from the collective and ceremonial participation -through the assumptions of the celebration as a category of study of anthropology and sociology- together with the processes of transformation of traditions, the concept of identity and the functions of celebration in society and music in the act of celebration.This proposal aims to offer a complete perspective on how to approach popular traditional festive events, taking into account the socio-cultural, political, economic components, practices and musical repertoires performed by the groups that correspond to wind bands. This thesis does not examine the musical event in isolation. Rather, it studies its implications in the social context and its repercussion on the celebrating populations, but without leaving aside a descriptive analysis of the music and its performative relations with the act of celebration.