Melodías de la memoria: La música colonial en santafé un dispositivo instaurador de discursos coloniales religiosos, políticos y sociales. construcción y aplicación del dispositivo; imposición y resistencia.

Abstract

This inquiry focuses on the colonial period in Santafé de Bogotá, between the years 1550 and 1810. It is proposed to study how music becomes a device for imposing and instituting colonial discourses. This device of power operated in two ways: for the Spaniards, music served to evangelize, control and domesticate the indigenous and black; for the indigenous, music became a mechanism of resistance that allowed the preservation of memory, traditions, cosmogony and culture. Throughout the document a journey is made through the dynamics of construction and application of the device, and it reaches the resistance that is generated from within itself. For this, a reflection is made around the role of music, both in Spanish and European society, and in Muisca society, trying to understand the role it plays in both social groups. It is also studied how through music impose schemes of social, political and religious organization, and apply hierarchical forms in the relationships that allow control, imposition and subordination. The final component of this reflection is the exploration of two spaces of social encounter of the time, where music has a primordial place: the celebration and the celebration, from there one tries to understand the music like a mechanism by which the native towns could Preserve, preserve and transmit part of their beliefs, traditions and cosmogony