Abstract
The presence of romances in the oral tradition of Barbacoas, Nari?o, a predominately black community in Colombia's Pacific Lowlands, marks an unusual contrast with traditional romancero studies, in the sense that this genre has been adapted, not by the direct descendants of a given tradition, but rather, by a human group that has little in common with its original transmitters and apparently even less so with the musical system within which this genre has developed until now. The study of several religious romances that are sung today, the context in which they are sung, and their function, gives rise (as one scholar put it) to a whole new spectrum of research in regard to the diffusion of the romance and to the process of transculturation.
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