Islanders´ perception about continental music

Researchers

• Claudia Lucía Castiblanco• Ana Dilian Orozco• Olmes Oswaldo Zapata• Dora Inés Mesa

Questions

• What gender of music do you listen to in San Andrés?

• Which kind of music is promoted in cultural activities in San Andres?

• What do you think about the influence of intercontinental music here in San Andres?

• Do you think music is part of the cultural identity of a region?

Most of the interviewed people said that here in San Andres they are use

to listening to vallenato and salsa

music

People interviewed

• Taxi drivers• A moto driver • A teacher • A beach vendor• A house wife• A child • A singer

Ages: from 8 to 68

• Danisha Archobold• Pabla Luna• Johanna Livingstong• Keicha Bent Manuel

Islander in San Andrés

dance Polka and Merecumbé

listen Vallenato and Salsa

Calypso and of course Reggae.

We try to dance some Reggae

with beautiful rythm and movements

but when we moved our bodies

this look like zombies and mummies.

Their native music remembers

the memory of the ancestors

in most cultural events

everybody are receptors.

They listen and dance as well

intercontinental music

but this interesting sound

it´s in San Andrés amusing

The music is that the way

that people enjoy too much

to dance for them is too easy

for having friends and being fun

Perception in San Andrés

about the music has changed

some like intercontinental

it depends how old are they?

Finishing two thousand thirteen

we had the second immersion

teachers from different places

share and learned with motivation