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The text seeks to inquire about the valuation of Johann Sebastian Bach in music education at the university level. To this end, the role of the composer's work in the teaching of traditional stringed instruments from the Colombian Andean region, instruments that are part of a musical tradition different from the Central European one, was analyzed. Based on some contributions of postcolonial theory, especially the notion of provincializing Europe, proposed by Dipesh Chakrabarty, the authors propose the need to provincialize the most mentioned of the great composers and, in general, the Central European musical tradition. In relation to the methodology, surveys were conducted with students and teachers of instruments such as the Andean charango, tiple and bandola, belonging to two Colombian universities, with the intention of finding out how much Bach's music is or is not used in the teaching-learning process and, more importantly, what justifications are given for it. The results show that the symbolic weight of Bach's work is still very strong, even in the teaching of instruments far removed from the Central European tradition, which is why we propose a provincialization of Bach and his work in order to think about its use in a more critical way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A través de un extenso trabajo etnográfico, Stobart pasa revista a los nexos existentes entre producción de alimentos y la producción material e inmaterial de cultura. El presente artículo es una buena muestra de la solidez teórica y empírica sobre la que se basa su obra. En él, de manera sumamente sugerente, Stobart examina las implicaciones multisensoriales de la recepción musical en la región de Macha, al norte de Potosí, durante los períodos de fiesta. Con prosa amena y aguda, Stobart repasa los vínculos culturales entre música, sexualidad y comida, así como entre percepciones visuales y auditivas para, finalmente, concentrarse en las relaciones entre prácticas musicales, ofrendas religiosas y el clima de la región potosina. Tomando la noción de sinestesia en la antropología, Stobart analiza un rico material etnográfico y nos acerca a concepciones indígenas de los Andes hasta ahora inéditas para nosotros. Un texto que, sin duda, propiciará acercamientos parecidos a las músicas indígenas de los Andes peruanos.

Anthropologica inicia la sección «Traducciones» con un artículo del etnomusicólogo británico Henry Stobart, uno de los especialistas más importantes en música indígena boliviana, en particular de la región de Potosí.

The following paper synthesizes the subject “Popular music and Bicentenaries. Creation, music practice and social representations in the urban Andean area” approaching the development of contemporary “Andean music” and its relationship with Latin American Bicentenaries. The paper analyses the impact of music on the valorization of ethnicity, localness and community values, as vectors of social integration to new postmodern nationalisms. The subject concerns the evolution of the Andean lute charango, a musical instrument that has expanded towards a Global dimension since these last two decades.

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This essay discusses beliefs and practices concerning gender, musical instruments and vocal performance in rural communities of northern Potosi', in the Bolivian Andes. While instrumental performance is a male preserve, critical to the construction and expression of manhood, it is also argued that much value is ascribed to women's singing and creation of song poetry. It is further suggested that women's exclusion from instrumental performance should not necessarily be understood in terms of subordination, but approached within broader models and contexts of gender relations. This involves exploring gendered aspects of fertility, llama husbandry, seasonality, the cosmos and the landscape, leading to an examination of courtship, androgyny, notions of 'marked' and 'unmarked' gender, and the possibility of multiple gender and degrees of gendering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information on musical stringed instruments, with emphasis on an experiment measuring the stress relaxation in nylon string using a charango. Method employed in monitoring the frequency; Adaptation of the experiment to Maxwell element model; Characteristics of viscoelastic behaviour.