Sun City Girls me llevaron allí:
"Folk and “Sub” Cultures
I want to begin by talking about folk cultures. The German
philosopher Johannes Herder coined the term “Volkslied” (“folk song”) in
the eighteenth century and produced a two volume collection of folk
song lyrics from around the world, but there have always been folk
cultures, usually existing in the shadow of kings, churches, rulers of
various kinds. The peasantry, out of necessity, out of the fact they
owned little or nothing, found “unofficial” ways of making, distributing
and sharing things – like songs for example, or recipes or spells. They
developed particular collective techniques for producing these things –
appropriating, cutting and pasting, transforming whatever came to hand,
what anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss called “the
science of the concrete”. Then industrialization came along and with it
new kinds of “official” distribution networks – the capitalist
marketplace, copyright and intellectual property law, and the Romantic
cult of the individual artist, who at the same time, sold his or her
work in the marketplace like any other worker. At that time in Europe
folk cultures apparently disappeared as autonomous entities. They were
appropriated and represented as reified kitsch symbols of the
nation-state. On the left such reified kitsch versions of “folk” were
rightly seen as fascist manipulations, but the left also embraced
industrialization and the transformation of the peasantry into the
proletariat. Marx wrote dismissively of the “lumpenproletariat” – the
hustlers, tricksters and others on the margins of industrial society who
could not or would not work in the factories. If Mike Davis in his
recent book Planet of Slums is to be believed, people in this situation
now constitute a majority of the world’s citizens. Such communities of
the marginalized or disaffected today appropriate industrial imagery and
technology just as they did the official imagery of the church and
crown back in Medieval days. Music, which is a peculiarly slippery and
autonomous kind of human expression, is of great interest to such
communities, and probably always has been, since it is very difficult to
turn music, or more generally sound, into private property. The
recording industry in the twentieth century was a sustained attempt to
do this, but looking around today, one has to say that it has not
entirely succeeded. And conversely, it is possible to make amazing music
even if you have no property whatsoever."
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Rafael Zabaleta_"Purullena"_1958


















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