Title: Playing music, performing resistance : the dynamics of resistance through music in the Colombian South Pacific coast /
Authors: Lozano, Natalia
Publisher: Lit,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Music Political aspects Colombia.; Music Colombia History and criticism.; Folk music Colombia History and criticism.; Folk music; Music Political aspects; Political science; Music Political aspects Colombia Valle del Cauca.; Music Political aspects Colombia Cauca (Department); Music Political aspects Colombia Narino (Department); Music Social aspects Colombia Valle del Cauca.; Music Social aspects Colombia Cauca (Department); Music Social aspects Colombia Narino (Department); Black people Colombia Music History and criticism.; Musicians Colombia Guapí.; Colombia Politics and government; Colombia
Abstract: Could it be that playing marimba music is an act of resistance? Could it be a peace practice? Are musicians from the South Colombian Pacific coast performing peace by playing their vernacular music? These pages are concerned with those questions, and also with the reflections about the concept of peace that they trigger. Through an ethnographical research, this book attempts to grasp peace as an active practice of self-assertion exercised in the daily life of the musicians from a traditionally alienated region in Colombia.
Contents: Bordon 1: peace in resistance -- Bordon 2: the Pacific coast between exclusion domination and resistance -- Bordon 3: the marimba resounds among exclusion, violence and homogenization -- Revuelta 1: getting involved -- Revuelta 2: living in music, for music, on music -- Revuelta 3: in the festival.