Abstract

QUILES, Oswaldo Lorenzo  and  REYES PEGUERO, Francisco Luis. Puerto Rico and its musical expressions. From the historical and sociocultural context to the current folkloric reality. Prax. Saber [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.32, e201.  Epub Feb 17, 2023. ISSN 2216-0159.  https://doi.org/10.19053/22160159.v13.n32.2022.13208.

Understanding how the current folkloric musical expressions arise on Puerto Rico requires analyzing its sociocultural context from its historical origins, linked to the conquest of America. This allows us to observe the great influence of several musical expressions of the island's cultural heritage and to correctly associate their distinctive features with the music of the local pre-Columbian culture and with that imported forcibly from Africa, through slavery. Thus, the Puerto Rican culture was developed during the colonial era, from 1493 to 1898, without being Taino, African or Spanish, but hybrid. At the arrival of Americans in 1898, Puerto Ricans were not culturally Spanish nor today they are culturally American. Puerto Rican musical culture is the product of its varied influences throughout its history, whose foundations were clearly set through a centuries-long process of miscegenation.

Keywords : traditional music; Caribbean; colonialism; Caribbean culture.

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