Browsing by Author "Franco Cortez, Juan Carlos"

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    MEMORIA SOCIAL DE LA MÚSICA RITUAL AFROESMERALDEÑA
    (Universidad de los Hemisferios, 2024-12-10) Franco Cortez, Juan Carlos
    A partir de la memoria del proceso de formación histórico y socio-cultural del Litoral Colombo Ecuatoriano se explica el surgimiento de la Música Ritual Afroesmeraldeña. De las dinámicas de resistencia y dominio, así como de las múltiples relaciones multi e interculturales en el territorio norte de la actual provincia de Esmeraldas la música nace en la doble dimensión de ser evento ritual y género. Los arrullos, chigualos y alabados que se consignan en el presente documento constituyen el testimonio del sincretismo religioso de la diáspora a la que fueron sometidos los pueblos africanos a partir del siglo XVI y el poder de la música ritual como mecanismo de supervivencia en las Américas. Las voces de las glosadoras y las respondedoras interpelan la irrupción de los acontecimientos divinos en la vida cotidiana y resisten a la muerte como fin mientras que la instrumentación –convocatoria percutiva ancestral- insiste en la continuidad de la existencia. La Música Ritual Afroesemeraldeña es parte del patrimonio inmaterial del Ecuador. Como producto estético y cultural de un pueblo, el libro Memoria Social de la Música Ritual Afroesmeraldeña insiste en su puesta en valor.
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    Sonic Configurations in the Upper Amazon: Women's Songs of Power In Shuar, Achuar, and Kichwa Horticulture
    (Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental, 2024-12-02) Franco Cortez, Juan Carlos
    Objective: To analyze the forms of communication that through complex sonic configurations in permanent construction are established between human beings and spiritual beings that inhabit the hidden worlds in the Shuar, Achuar and Kichwa societies of the Napo in the High Amazon of Ecuador. Theoretical Framework: Analysis of the forms of listening that over time have been established to approach the musical manifestations of Amazonian societies, giving relevance to those that in recent decades have emerged from anthropology, ethnography and ethnomusicology to understand these audible worlds under the use of a symmetrical ethnographic method that values their own sound perceptions. For this purpose, the authors García (2015) and Seeger (2015) were used. Method: A bibliographical and documentary research was used through anthropological and ethnomusicological investigations regarding sound thoughts in the Upper Amazon to confront this information with data collected in the field with the use of ethnographic method. Results and Discussion: The most important finding of this research lies in the fact that female horticultural practices in these societies are only possible to understand them within the framework of a communication process between human and supernatural beings who inhabit cosmogonic spaces where the relationship between power and sound allows activating and giving effectiveness to sound expressions. Implications of the Research: Contribute to the understanding of the systems of musical thought of the High Amazon with the purpose of formulating policies for the safeguarding and placing in value of this important intangible cultural heritage. Originality/Value: This study contributes to the understanding of musical thought systems in the Upper Amazon where musical manifestations have a close relationship with mythologies and cosmogonies. Here lies its originality and value, at the same time that it opens new perspectives of discussion for the study of Amazonian music.