Making Heritages. The Materialization of the State and the Expediency of Music. The Case of cuarteto característico in Córdoba, Argentina

GUSTAVO A. BLAZQUEZ

Entangles Heritages: Poscolonial perspectives on the Use of Past in Latin America

Routledge

Lugar: London; Año: 2017; p. 165 - 187

The group of actionsperformed by the provincial and municipal State of Córdoba in relation to somesonorities of popular tone can be understood as part of the new agreed valueset upon Culture and new ways in which to manage it. In Argentina, like otherplaces in the world, symbolic goods were transformed into important resourcesfor social, economic, and political growth. The actions of the State extendedin different spheres of social life, even in those considered intimate, while atthe same time privatizing public spaces (Sabsay, 2011). In this context, thecultural policies will be analyzed as part of new government technologies wherecertain uses and symbolic goods are transformed into a resource. Power not onlysuppresses but also produces and makes it desirable to recognize itself in aspecific cultural identity. The whole process of (trans)formation of popular sonoritiesinto emblem and heritage in a specific territory has a certain glocal characterand its analysis will allow us to describe, in a micro scale, the mutation ofthe strategic position of Culture with relation to state practices and changesin forms of governmentality (Foucault, 1999). Through the analysis of heritagisation of cuarteto we can observe how Statewas (re)produced in Córdoba. Some of the questions this article tries to answerare: Who and in what ways did they create heritage? How was the State materializedin that process?