The Tones of the Green Moon: The Struggle over the Meaning of the Green Moon Festival in San Andres Island

Authors

  • Diva Marcela Piamba Tulcán Universidad Nacional
  • Eduardo Antonio Silva Universidad Nacional

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15648/cl.23.2016.7

Abstract

This paper presents a series of reflec- tions on the Green Moon Festival held on the island of San Andres (Colombia), the musical traditions presented there and the identities that are constituted around the event. Based on a comparison of two texts that reference the Festival in its beginnings and a recent ethnography, the analysis centers around the transfor- mations and reinterpretations that has marked the event, showing the Festival as an ambivalent place that oscillates between interests of state/commercial cooptation and identity claims.

 

Keywords: San Andres Island, Identity, Ethnogra- phy, Music, Colombianization

How to Cite

Piamba Tulcán, D. M., & Silva, E. A. (2016). The Tones of the Green Moon: The Struggle over the Meaning of the Green Moon Festival in San Andres Island. Cuadernos De Literatura Del Caribe E Hispanoamérica, (23), 143–161. https://doi.org/10.15648/cl.23.2016.7

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Published

2016-11-24