De los Ancares a Buenos Aires. Epistolario sonoro entre gallegos a ambos lados del Atlántico

Abstract

This contribution analyzes a kind of musical and auditive communication between Galician emigrants to Argentina (who in the midtwentieth century settled in Buenos Aires and Quilmes) and their relatives, neighbors and friends in the Sierra of Ancares (Galicia, Spain): a set of tapes (cassettes recorded in the ’80s) with the voices and instrumental play of the persons involved, complemented by a series of musical greetings collected during a short fieldwork in Galicia (2000). Up to now, this modality of contact, using a modern technology, between separated groups of people with a common, very traditional family and neighborhood background has not yet been studied. Of special interest is also the opportunity to analyze performative situations not observed by the anthropologist within the framework of fieldwork itself.