The shortcomings of identity: Champeta, culture, and inequality in Cartagena, Colombia

This paper explores the connections between the culture and living conditions of Afro-descendants in Colombian society. The specific object of study is Champeta, a Black urban music associated with social resistance. The text analyzes Champeta’s evolution in Colombia’s multicultural frame. It conclu...

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Autor principal: Cabarcas Ortega, Marcelo José
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2023
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Forum Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9932398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36820012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-023-09688-7
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description This paper explores the connections between the culture and living conditions of Afro-descendants in Colombian society. The specific object of study is Champeta, a Black urban music associated with social resistance. The text analyzes Champeta’s evolution in Colombia’s multicultural frame. It concludes with an analysis of these multicultural premises’ shortcomings, especially regarding the material improvement of Black Colombians’ living conditions. This text contributes to current debates on cultural diversity in Latin America.
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spelling pubmed-99323982023-02-16 The shortcomings of identity: Champeta, culture, and inequality in Cartagena, Colombia Cabarcas Ortega, Marcelo José Dialect Anthropol Forum Commentary This paper explores the connections between the culture and living conditions of Afro-descendants in Colombian society. The specific object of study is Champeta, a Black urban music associated with social resistance. The text analyzes Champeta’s evolution in Colombia’s multicultural frame. It concludes with an analysis of these multicultural premises’ shortcomings, especially regarding the material improvement of Black Colombians’ living conditions. This text contributes to current debates on cultural diversity in Latin America. Springer Netherlands 2023-02-16 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9932398/ /pubmed/36820012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-023-09688-7 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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