In Windhoek, Namibia, the Intergovernmental Committee for Intangible Cultural Heritage of Unesco, composed of 23 countries responsible for approving the proposals that posit all interested countries, today announced the inclusion of traditional vallenato music of Magdalena Grande List Intangible Cultural Heritage in need of Urgent Safeguarding. The UN agency confirmed the news via his Twitter account.
Official Release
“This award represents an opportunity for the world to promote the contribution of vallenato strengthening intergenerational dialogue and respect for the melodic matrices music that is built from reality and everyday life, and to support actions to address the threats that plague the music of the traditional vallenato “he said Alberto Escovar, Director of Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, during the hearing of Unesco being presented since 29 November in Namibia, Africa.
The community and cultural managers of the departments of La Guajira, Magdalena and Cesar, requested the support of the Ministry of Culture regarding the inclusion on the national list that was made in 2013 and the nomination to Unesco, as identified major risks that could lead to loss of shape composition and melodic roots of traditional vallenato music, considering the changes that has been doomed such as representative music in our country.
The vallenato is a native musical genre of Caribbean Coast Colombian with its epicenter in the former province of Padilla (current south of La Guajira, Cesar north and east of Magdalena) and the savanna region of the departments of Bolivar, Sucre, Córdoba. Its popularity has spread across the country and abroad.
“I think a major decision that will provide the necessary protection of the country’s most beautiful cultural manifestations. The Vallenato is a tool strengthening the social fabric of the Colombian Caribbean region and for many years has enabled disclose through their lyrics, news and messages of its inhabitants, as well as the beautiful songs full of love and common stories. All Colombians must ensure their survival, “said Alvaro Cuello, a member of the monitoring committee of the PES of vallenato music and Francisco Corporation Man.
This application to UNESCO was held for three years, during which the community of composers, performers, music teachers, cultural managers, and institutional and national government actors, with technical, financial and methodological support of the Ministry of Culture, extensively discussed the need to act on the risks identified in participatory assessments, and they defined strategic lines safeguard. Discussions, forums and visits to Cesar, La Guajira and Magdalena departments were prioritized within the nomination dossier were conducted.
In turn, in 2013 the National Council of Cultural Heritage approved the Special Plan Safeguarding – PES of this event and was inscribed on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of national
The strategic lines of the PES are translated into specific actions and projects that seek to mitigate the identified risks. .
1 Transfer of knowledge: training, research and memory. The purpose is to pave the way for the recovery of memory that can be used as a source of training and education of new generations in aspects of tradition, and retrieve its role in the history of the region of the Caribbean Coast.
> 2. Development of regulations, policies and sectoral organization. Promote the creation of forms of community organization that promote the implementation of standards to promote the creation, production and circulation of traditional vallenato music, considering the quality of his poetic characteristics, rhythmic diversity and anecdotal sense, among others.
3. promotion, distribution and marketing. There are currently no adequate diffusion of the constituent elements of the traditional cultural vallenato music. Measures were generated to interact with different media, public and private, to encourage them to promote the traditional vallenato music as an intangible cultural heritage of the region and of all Colombians.
4. Monitoring and evaluation. As a supervisory body, counseling and evaluation of the implementation process of the PES, the community appointed a Monitoring Committee to PES, consisting of 11 members representing the entire region. During the preparation of the PES, the community appointed a management entity in charge of leading the proper execution of safeguarding projects within the strategic lines.
The application process began in 2014 when the Colombian Government through the Ministry of Culture and the Foreign Ministry, Unesco sent the file to opt for inclusion. Notably, the Ministry has implemented the Special Safeguard Plan – PES – developing the following actions related to the strategic lines:
2014
– Implementation of the National Congress Vallenato Festival and ‘Vallenato the Park’, a space that allowed the presentation of new talent.
– Preparation Primer ‘Oh’ombe Juepa heh! Plays, sings, versea, plays and dances with vallenato: initiation in traditional folk music Eastern Caribbean, La Guajira, Magdalena and Cesar Axis’, through the National Program of Music for Coexistence of the Directorate of Arts
. – virtual magazine “Plan to safeguard the traditional vallenato music of the Colombian Caribbean” and the documentary “The province, traditional vallenato”.
– 2 ordinary meetings of the Monitoring Committee of the PES, in Dibuya, La Guajira and Barranquilla, . Atlantic, respectively
2015
– Research Project and sound, photography and audiovisual record ‘I Pleasures, a trip to the root of vallenato song’ – Chapter La Guajira
-.. A regular meeting of the monitoring committee of the PES, in the city of Valledupar, Cesar
This recognition adds to 6 demonstrations declared by Unesco during the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon: Feast of St. Francis of Assisi or San Pacho in Quibdo (2012); I Yaia Keti Oka, traditional knowledge (Jaguars Yuruparí) for the management of indigenous groups Pira Parana River (2011); Marimba music and traditional chants of Colombia’s South Pacific (2010) and the Wayuu Normative System applied by the babbler Pütchipü’üi (2010), included in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage; . and Cutural Landscape Coffee (2011) and the Qhapaq Ñan or Andean Highway System (2014), included in the World Heritage List
The country has other declarations of Humanity as: Carnival Barranquilla (2003); Popayan processions of Holy Week (2009); Blacks and Whites’ Carnival of Pasto (2009) and Cultural Space of Palenque de San Basilio (2005).
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