https://revistas.icanh.gov.co/index.php/rca/article/view/1005

This paper presents the results from a recent research about traditional music practices at Villa Rica, Cauca, Colombia. From an ethnographic description of three social contexts (the Nativity celebration, children and adults wake, and work and leisure spaces), and a exploration of different ways to deal with demands of physical and human work resources, the article argues that traditional music practices are privileged instances where people communicate, transform and reassert the different criteria of collective action. Criteria that are at the basis of solidarity practices of Villa Rica villagers. In this sense, the main argument agrees with the idea that traditional music practices are spaces where society is made, and not just a reflection of it.