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ABSTRACT
This article presents a research project that began three decades ago in the Faculty of Teacher Training on the Cáceres Campus of the University of Extremadura (Spain) and that continues opening new prospects through new interconnected approaches. Many researchers from different universities throughout Spain and Latin America have joined this process in the Group for Musical Heritage and Education (MUSAEXI). It began with the clear premise that music and cultural history have been traditionally centred around the study of the great composers, while other faraway cultures are considered exotic. In order to develop meaningful learning in which musical heritage is not exclusively that of the ‘grand masters’, it is necessary to understand what music has meant in the life of a given community, starting from our closest surroundings. This meaning is defined in three interconnected and cyclical blocks, always considered alongside the study of heritage and its educational application. The first studies local heritage. The second deals with shared heritage, from the local to the global, whether by geographic proximity or the ups and downs of history. The third, the global from the local; local heritage shows us cultures that we see as far away, but that nevertheless are direct descendants.
Acknowledgement
My special thanks to Timothy Foster, Vanderbilt University (USA), for translation assistance with this article.
Disclosure statement
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Notes on contributor
Pilar Barrios Manzano, Ph.D. in History of Art and Music, is a professor of Teaching Musical Expression at the Teacher Training College of the University of Extremadura. She has considerable experience in Music and Artistic Education. Currently she is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Didactics, Music, Plastic Education and Physical Expression, at the Teacher Training College in Cáceres, University of Extremadura. Her research activities are focused on music, art, and folk traditions with the aim to expand knowledge and information on shared heritage through artistic education. Prof. Manzano is frequently invited to participate in national and international scientific conferences, workshops, and symposiums on artistic education and heritage. She has authored books and articles on her area of interest. She coordinates the group of the ‘Top Researchers in European Project CulturPlus’; at the same time, she collaborates with the Institute for Heritage Research at the University of Extremadura, and coordinates the Research Group for Musical Heritage and Education, MUSAEXI, which is dedicated to the study of Musical Heritage and Education in the Extremadura region.
Notes
1 An online version can be found at http://nuestramusica.unex.es/nuestra_musica/musihistorica/inicio_musihisto.html «Estudio por zonas».
2 See, for example, the page: ‘Danza y Ritual. Extremadura en el encuentro de culturas’ [‘Dance and Ritual. Extremadura in the encounter of cultures’], http://www.danzayritual.com/.
8 Some of his works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1RV0gzwvY.
9 Santa Maria, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WglFwIxSu8.
10 Los coflades de la estleya, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EeayPpS2Ag.
11 His biography can be found at http://nuestramusica.unex.es/nuestra_musica/musihistorica/SIGLOXLX.HTM. To hear some of his chamber works: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eetIlra5zR0; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQvkU6WWQu8; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWGQNZR8QMU).
12 http://2seminarioiberoamericano.blogspot.com.es/p/pastorela-mexicana.html. Pastorela de Palomero, Cáceres, Spain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQQg2w4a6Eo.