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The Paraguayan Harp - From Colonial Transplant to National Emblem (Hardcover)
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The Paraguayan Harp - From Colonial Transplant to National Emblem (Hardcover)
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How did a music instrument transplated to South America by colonial
Jesuit missionaries earn the official designation as Paraguay's
cultural national symbol? This ethnomusicological and organological
study of the Paraguayan diatonic harp in the twentieth century
tells its story as an emblematic national musical instrument. First
used liturgically by Jesuit missions in colonial times, the
transplanted European diatonic harp was transformed and adopted
into the folk music vocabulary of Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata
region. Following the commercial success of Paraguayan harpist
Felix Perez Cardozo in the 1930s in Argentina, the instrument's
symbolic value as an icon of social, cultural, and national
identity was articulated in local traditions such as popular folk
music festivals. It received designation of arpa paraguaya
(Paraguayan harp) and, in 2010, official recognition as simbolo de
la cultura nacional (cultural national symbol). The author's
fieldwork in Paraguay and continuous contact with composers,
educators, festival organizers, harp performers, researchers, and
festival organizers have provided unique insights into the
development of the Paraguayan harp tradition as a cultural icon of
the nation.
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