Los ecuatorianos y el pasillo: significado y función cultural del género musical más representativo del país

Manuel Espinosa-Apolo

Vol. 21 No. 4_99 (2017)
La Semiótica y sus métodos para la investigación crítica en América Latina

Varia

The Ecuadorians and The Pasillo: Meaning and cultural role of the country's most representative musical genre

Published 2017-12-14

Manuel Espinosa-Apolo

Manuel Espinosa-Apolo
Universidad Central del Ecuador

How to Cite

Espinosa-Apolo, M. (2017). The Ecuadorians and The Pasillo: Meaning and cultural role of the country’s most representative musical genre. Razón Y Palabra, 21(4_99), 522–532. Retrieved from https://ryp.cheersportwildcats.com/index.php/ryp/article/view/1096

Download Citation

The authors who publish in this magazine agree with the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right to be the first publication of the work as well as licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with acknowledgment of the authorship of the work and initial publication. in this magazine.

Authors may separately establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (for example, placing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their works electronically (for example, in institutional repositories or on their own website) before and during the submission process, as it may lead to productive exchanges as well as further citation earliest and largest of published works (See The Effect of Open Access).

Abstract

The present article reflects upon the meaning and cultural role of Ecuador's most cultural and popular musical genre: El Pasillo. It enhances its aesthetic traits and the possibility to allow an encounter and a sort of communion among those Ecuadorians who perceive themselves as "non - Indians". At the same time, the article emphasizes its condition of identity reference and its contribution to attest the feeling of belongingness in that social strata. Lastly, it remarks the role of such a genre to aid social cohesion and regional integration in Ecuador.

Keywords

Middle class, Modernism, Arielismo, Identity, Belonging, Whitening

PDF (Español (España))

Author Biography

Manuel Espinosa-Apolo

Magister, Historia Andina por la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Consultor e Historiador cultural especializado en la inventigación de temas del mundo andino: identidad, mestizaje, mentalidad y vida cotidiana. Autor de "Los mestizos ecuatorianos y las señas de identidad cultural" y "Mestizaje, cholificación y blanqueamiento en Quito". Compilador y editor de varias obras relacionadas con historia y cultura andinas. Actualmente es catedrático universitario y dirige proyectos para la recuperación de la memoria histórica y colectiva en los barrios y parroquias de Quito.

References

Godoy, M. (2010). Raíces históricas del pasillo, en: J. Bueno, El pasillo lojano y otros géneros, entre 1900-200 Muestra viva del patrimonio intangible: Antología y análisis musicológico. Quito, Ecuador: INPC (no publicado).
Granda, W. (2003). El pasillo identidad sonora. Quito, Ecuador: CONMUSICA
Mora, M. (2003) El pasillo ecuatoriano como generador de Identidad Nacional (Tesis para obtener el título de licenciatura en Antropología Aplicada). Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Quito.
Wong, K. (s.f.). La nacionalización del pasillo ecuatoriano a inicios del s. XX, recuperado de http://www.hist.puc.el/historia/iaspula.html