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The Municipal Center of Patiño will host this afternoon, on the occasion of the next activities that are included in the program of the Meeting around the Patiño Balls, the presentation of the publication that includes the winning work of the Research Assistance Manuel Cárceles Caballero in its first edition.
This aid rewarded the works around the Intangible Heritage of the Huerta de Murcia carried out by researchers under 30 years.
The designated winner of the first edition was Juan Francisco Murcia Galián with his work 'The construction of traditional musical identity in Francoism'
After the presentation of the booklet, the documentary by Murcia director Gonzalo Ballester 'The Council of Good Men (The Law of the Garden) 2019' will be screened.
Subsequently, the Women's Center and the Municipal Board of Patiño will offer a tasting of the traditional broth with balls to all attendees and the Patiño Gang will liven up the night with some dances.
The winning work focuses on the study of traditional Murcia music during the Franco era, a period in Spanish history in which the collection, study and practice of so-called folk music or oral tradition reached a boom, given that recreation and the revival of these musics was an important tool in the national construction process.
The objective of the project is to analyze the traditional music of the municipality of Murcia during the Franco regime from the documentary fund conserved in the General Archive of the Administration of Alcalá de Henares.
The cataloging of this documentary fund will allow the author of the investigation to carry out a study approached from a double perspective.
On the one hand, from the official folklore of the Regime, rescued and disseminated by its own institutions: the Choirs and Dances of the Women's Section and the Choirs and Dances of the Trade Union Work of Education and Rest.
And on the other, from folklore not influenced by current political institutions, and compiled by researchers from the Spanish Institute of Musicology.
In this way, a comparison between the different repertoires of traditional music of Murcia can be established, contrasting the technical differences of collection and methodologies of field work, as well as the music collected and how this election configured the establishment of a musical identity with The one we feel linked.
During the Franco regime the work of gathering popular music followed two directions.
On the one hand, this task was performed by advisors of the Women's Section and school teachers, in order to adapt and bring to the scene of the Choir and Dance Contests the traditional Spanish songs and dances.
On many occasions these works lacked an adequate scientific methodology.
These groups led the process of 're-folklorization' that ended up setting up a musical repertoire canon that identified each Spanish region and that has lasted practically until today.
On the other hand, the collection of regional songs was also carried out by the Spanish Institute of Musicology.
From this institution, renowned researchers began an intense work of collecting and transcribing songs and tunes from Spanish regions, following a scientific and ethnomusicological methodology.
As a result of these works, musical transcriptions that reflect the oral musical environment of Murcia in the late forties are preserved;
the recordings made by the American researcher Alan Lomax in several towns of the municipality of Murcia and the recordings directed by Manuel García Matos.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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