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In the present transcribed, edited and annotated talk, renowned musician and scholar Carlos Saavedra Reyes guides us through a cultural musical trip starting from the historical roots of calypso in the Afro-Caribbean tradition, all the way to Costa Rica’s west as expressed through the quijongo and the punto guanacasteco. The speaker discusses how music has been a difficult knot in the subject of Costa Rican national identity.
C. Saavedra Reyes is the author of the original talk. M. Ortega-Rodríguez and H. Solís-Sánchez were responsible for transcribing, translating, editing and annotating the talk, including the vignettes; their comments appear within square brackets.
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Saavedra-Reyes, C. (1999). Compendio de percusión afrolatina [Compendium of Afro-Latin percussion]. Costa Rica: Editorial Fundación UNA.
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Saavedra Reyes, C. (2019). Traditional Music Across Costa Rica from the Caribbean Afro-Latin Perspective. In: Ortega-Rodríguez, M., Solís-Sánchez, H. (eds) Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge According to Local Experiences. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06146-3_4
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