Imaginarios Sociales de la Identidad Musical en Contextos Educativos Situados. Estudio de Caso en los Actores Musicales de Cajamarca Tolima

The concept “Folklore” has been attached to the cultural identity in each single process of nation foundation. This term, when coined for the first time, was defined as representative autochthonous practices which identify each place and differentiate them from others, and which are transmitted generation by generation. Over the years, considering the appearance of the mass media and the arrival of internet, the folklore and the identity have been permeated by elements coming from diverse cultures, as well as by situations of governmental and social order, which has been transforming the concept of cultural identity. Cajamarca, a municipality located in Tolima, Colombia, has not been the exception to this reality; that is the reason why, when doing this research, it was considered as objective to know and analyze which are the characteristics that define folklore and cultural identity, specially in the concept of musical identity, to develop a pedagogical proposal that strengthens the cultural identity in Cajamarca at the entrance into the 21st century. This ethnographical research goes around the social imaginaries of the Cajamarca’s citizens, to know the musical identity investigating its cultural managers, artists, allies, teachers, peasants and musicians, through interviews and round table discussion as main source of information, through the interpretative paradigm. The methodology is qualitative, showing progress up to date and it is waited to condense the final results, in a digital and physical summary document available to all Cajamarca population and the scientific community.