Abstract

TRIANA, Gloria. Totó la momposina: Our transhumant singer. Nómadas [online]. 2008, n.28, pp.164-179. ISSN 0121-7550.

This text walks through the vital and creative paths of one of the greatest cantadoras of the Colombian popular music. The singer tell us how her family played a decisive role in her process of becoming an artist; how the study and fandango meetings in the backyard of her house made her sensitive to singing and dancing; and how the knowledge of singing and rhythms that she learned from other women who were also cantadoras, and who came from towns by the shore of the river Magdalena, was a definitive point to the processes of recuperation and artistic creation.

Keywords : Totó la Momposina; popular music; cantadoras; Colombia; musical creation.

        · abstract in Spanish | Portuguese     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )