"The chants of the copleras in Amaicha del Valle: vocal performativity, bodies in becoming and sense of place in the Argentinian Northwest" - by Ivan Fritzen Andrade
This short film presents ethnographic registers on the musical performances of elderly calchaquí women, known as copleras, in the Native Community of Amaicha del Valle (Province of Tucumán, Argentina). Based on an ethnomusicological research carried out between 2012 and 2015, this audiovisual narrative highlights the epistemologies that orient these native singers in the making of their musical practices.
From a coplera world hearing, the singing of coplas figures as a powerful instrument to manage relations in the amaicheño-calchaquí socio-cosmological domain. The wills of the Pachamama, or ´Mother Earth´, the presence of animals, the sound emissions from the landscape and the passing of time, all come together as agents responsible in creating the complexity of meanings immanent to these forms of chants.
As heirs of a de-colonial line of thinking, through their accounts the copleras invite us for ethnomusicological inquiries beyond the humanly organized sound perspective. Their musical performances and underlying theories defy us to try out other ways of hearing the world around us.
From a territory historically marked by colonialism in the Argentinian Northwest, the copleras present issues of vocal performativity, the becoming of bodies and the sense of place from a calchaquí perspective.
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19 сен 2024
