BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – The Unesco declared intangible heritage of humanity Colombian vallenato genre big as Rafael Escalona, Leandro Diaz and Emiliano Zuleta in recent years and help internationalize star Carlos Vives.
In this photo taken Sept. 13, 2013, the Colombian singer Carlos Vives, accompanied by accordionist Egidio Cuadrado, during a concert of his tour ” deep heart “in Quito, Ecuador. Unesco declared intangible heritage of humanity Colombian vallenato Tuesday 1st December 2015.
Photo: AP Photo / Dolores Ochoa, File / AP in Spanish
“The vallenato, traditional music of Great Magdalena, Colombia, registered in list of urgent safeguarding intangible heritage. Bravo! “, he wrote Unesco at its official Twitter account on Tuesday.
The event was inducted immediately by President Juan Manuel Santos, who said on the same network microblogging that the decision of the organization against this Colombian rhythm is “an action to preserve forever”.
The decision was made in Windhoek, Namibia, according to the Colombian Ministry of Culture.
“This award represents an opportunity for the world to promote the contribution of vallenato strengthening intergenerational dialogue and respect for matrices melodic music that is built from reality and everyday life, and to support actions to address the threats that plague traditional vallenato music, “said Alberto Escovar, director of Heritage of the Ministry of Culture.
The vallenato, saying the Ministry, is a musical genre indigenous Colombian Caribbean Coast with its epicenter in the former province of Padilla (current south of La Guajira, Cesar and northern East Magdalena) and the savanna region of the departments of Bolivar, Sucre, Córdoba.
According to Unesco, “is a traditional musical genre emerged from the fusion of cultural expressions of northern Colombia: songs Cowboys Magdalena Grande songs of African slaves and traditional dance rhythms of the indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. ”
Anthropologist Sebastián Londoño said by telephone to The Associated Press that “what is sought (Unesco) was a process of safeguarding and new composers and musicians were also interested in and resume composing the poem and love, which are the roots of traditional vallenato and re-expose “.
In his view, the modernization of vallenato “has lost some interest in these composers to return to traditional arrays, which have a huge intangible heritage contents.”
According to experts, three of the greatest minstrels of vallenato are Rafael Escalona, Leandro Diaz and Emiliano Zuleta.
Escalona was immortalized by the Colombian Nobel Gabriel García Márquez in his masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
“In the last open-light district dismantled a set of accordions playing the songs of Rafael Escalona, the bishop’s nephew, heir to the secrets of Francisco the Man living,” he wrote García Márquez on his friend Escalona.
Leandro Diaz, who was born, lived and died blind, also became part of the literary work of the writer. In the novel “Love in the Time of Cholera”, the creator of Macondo highlighted in a section something Diaz wrote: “In these places go ahead: they have their crowned goddess.”
Ever García Márquez said that “One Hundred Years of Solitude” was a Vallenato of 400 pages.
In 1993, the Colombian singer Carlos Vives led vallenato outside its “Classics of the Province” and, incidentally, out of the old composers ostracized.
Vives made the world to know the composition “The cold drop,” Zuleta Baquero.
“It takes me I’ll take it or I / pa ‘that the sheath / Ay Morales brings me to me not / will not end because I please / Moralito me not me leads / because they feel like it / That culture, that culture will have / an Indian chumeca as Lorenzo Morales / that culture will have if born in the cardonales / Morales lie to my mom / pa only ‘offense / for him also offense / I lie now it’s, “says part of the song.
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