Samuel Martí and his Collection of Pre-Hispanic Musical Instruments: New Approaches from Organology and Curatorship
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https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v39i1.37-67Keywords:
Mesoamerica, musical cultures, musical instruments, museography, archaeomusicology, ethnomusicology, Samuel Martí, curating, Museum of Cultures of OaxacaAbstract
In 1976 the Regional Museum of Oaxaca (Mexico) received the donation of a collection of musical instruments belonging to the ethnomusicologist Samuel Martí (1906-1975) that was exhibited for a short time. A research and curatorial project has recently made it possible to exhibit these instruments again with the goal of exploring the motivations that gave rise to the collection and the close relationship it bears with the different facets of the collector’s life. This renowned Mexican-American researcher was a musician, ethnomusicologist, archaeomusicologist, and cultural advocate. Some of the instruments appeared in several of Martí’s publications, but without, any detailed documentation. This article approaches the Martí collection from an historiographic and museographic perspective, and explores why Martí selected the specimens he did.
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