Tales of a tradition. About the sound artifacts of the cuadrillas de San Martín (a transdisciplinary investigation)

Abstract

This article presents a synthesis of the concepts and methodology used in an investigation that had as object of study the musical instruments and sound artifacts used in the San Martín cuadrillas. The objective of this article is to describe part of the process with the purpose of revealing the foundation from interdisciplinary theoretical-methodological frameworks and transmit results obtained about of this socio-cultural expression. When addressing musical organology as a description and systematization tool for the classification of sound instruments, the need to study frameworks and methodological tools from other fields of knowledge was observed. Among them were oral history, archeomusicology and photography. The methodology is descriptive and is presented in three phases: the theoretical basis, the simple observation, the collection of memories and photographic material and finally, the presentation of results obtained through the investigation.

Keywords

• cuadrillas de San Martín
• organología
• artefactos sonoros
• memoria histórica y música
• instrumentos musicales colombianos