Músicos y tambores en la etnomusicología de la transculturación: Fernando Ortiz, los tamboreros de Regla y la etnografía afrocubana

Abstract

In this article I study the form of production of the “ethnographic authority” in the musicological work of Fernando Ortiz, founding author of an ethnological narrative for the Cuban nation, in which Afro-Cuban music occupies a central place. In this way, we will be able to see the rise and inscription of the ethnographic dialogic agency—the drums and the drummers from Regla (Havana) as ethnomusicology objects and subjects—in the texts of music representation.