Vallenatos desde la hacienda y la resistencia : sobre el algodón, la mujer y la caja

Abstract

Vallenato music is part of the Colombian identity and an image of our miscegenation since the creation of the department of Cesar in 1967. Its elites pushed a narrative with vallenatos of intellectuals who expressed their traditions and rights as landowners during the push for the cotton-based economy. Through their rituals such as parranda and colitas they established asymmetrical power relations with servitude and women. The impulse of a modern region contrasted with pre-capitalist expressions regulating the life of the peasant to a domestic sphere typical of landlordism and hacienda. However, during that same period the peasants would also express with vallenatos their conflicts with the elites of the coast from the department of Córdoba where the peasant movement would radicalize in favor of agrarian reform and their songs, they would denounce in the public sphere and through a literate culture the abuses of the landowners. The discursive analysis of these vallenatos allows this research project to deepen discursive miscegenation through musical practice and drum traditions on the Atlantic coast.