Seguidillas y fandangos en las colás de Alosno (Andalucía): género, corporalidad y afecto

Abstract

This article explores the interaction between gender, corporeality and affect in a musical practice of a locality in Andalusia. As part of a broader research study, we focus on a special and paradigmatic context, a festive manifestation representative of traditional culture that still continues to live with great dynamism in this place. We examine how the celebration of the May Cross in the colás de Alosno (Huelva) puts into action roles, gender relations and ideas about sexuality, femininity and masculinity, together with collective experiences of community and place emotionally contextualized. The musical performance, the interpretation of the music and dance of seguidillas and fandangos in the embodied voice of the alosneros and alosneras, contributes in a privileged way to the articulation of meanings and experiences of identity and personal subjectivity of gender, to the construction of social values and local identity, in a climate of strong circulation of affect, pleasure and emotion.

Keywords

• musical performance
• gender
• corporeality
• affect
• traditional music and dance
• fandangos and seguidillas