Alejandro Vargas

the creating juglar of the Orinoquan Guasa

Abstract

This article develops a narrative that allows us to think of the sound identity of the peoples as a multiethnic and multicultural process, developed from important historical events that contributed to a unique and particular synergy, thanks to certain periods of migration, often forced and in other voluntary opportunities, bringing with them rhythmic, interpretative and harmonic knowledge that merged with the passage of time, generating a solid cultural and identity construction in Ciudad Bolívar, which is projected to become the traditional genre: Orinoquense Guasa. The purpose of the present study is to identify from the musical production of bolivarian and son of migrants Alejandro Vargas, the Afro-family heritage of other latitudes, which together with the cultural and socio-political context of the moment, generated in the composer a cultural syncretic phenomenon that guide the song carnestolenda of the port city, becoming an auditory reference of the whole community.