Marimba music (UNESCO Heritage)

 

Place of the Project: South Pacific 14 Colombian municipalities

Community participant: Cantoras, musicians, cultural managers, instrument builders and local researchers in 14 municipalities in the southern Colombian Pacific

Objectives:

• Support communities of musicians, singers and cultural managers in the process of strengthening the Marimba music and traditional chants 
• Generate documents that support the process of patrimonial Marimba music and traditional chants before the nation and the UNESCO 
• Solicitation Conform and the Music Research Network Pacific 
• Support the management of the Special Plan for the Protection of the Marimba music and traditional chants

Date: Accompanying the Universidad Javeriana Cali processes of strengthening Marimba music and traditional chants from Colombia’s South Pacific started in 2007 and has remained active until 2011.

Results:

• Paper for nomination to UNESCO. The inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2010 was achieved 
• Characterization and documentation (photography, video, audio) of songs, dances and cultural events related 
• Documentation practice Marimba music and traditional chants 
• Participants: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Ministry of Culture, Polyphony Foundation team MartinaPombo

Important Fact: From the River Music program the initial documents that supported the nomination to UNESCO of the Marimba music and traditional chants South Pacific and Intangible Heritage of Humanity were developed

Meet results:

audiovisual
Research Texts