Boletín de Literatura Oral (Jul 2013)
“Tocar a lo barbero”. Guitar, popular music and barbers in the 17th century / "Tocar a lo barbero". La guitarra, la música popular y el barbero en el siglo XVII
Abstract
From the late sixteenth century, and during the following decades, the guitar became for barbers an icon of their profession since —according to a well-rooted literary and social stereotype— skilled craftsmen and officials of this disparaged job used to sing in their shops and in other festive contexts, folías, pasacalles and other popular tunes, wich they accompanied with a villainous strum of the instrument, eventually known as toque a lo barbero.
