Las nuevas músicas colombianas como espacio de intercambio cultural : trayectorias, mestizajes y prácticas musicales de la agrupación Kanayas Afro-Chibcha

Abstract

This research-creation investigated musical practices and the dynamics of musical identity in the so-called New Colombian Music (NMC) based on the experience of the Kanayas Afro-Chibcha group. It analyzed how the musical styles developed by its three members were interwoven with the cultural practices of traditional gaitas and drums music and chirimía flute bands in Bogotá. From a perspective that combined autoethnography, analysis of cultural encounters from music and musical practice, the difficulties and possibilities of inhabiting popular cultural diversity were explored, as well as the process of redefining cultural and sound fusions in the NMC. The results show that the NMC constitute a field of symbolic dispute in which narratives of tradition and modernity are reconfigured, and that the experience of Kanayas Afro-Chibcha makes sound experimentation visible as an exercise in identity construction and cultural dialogue in the contemporary urban context.