Son huasteco, son de costumbre. Etnolaudería del son a lo humano y a lo divino en Texquitote, San Luis Potosí

Abstract

Based on my own fieldwork in Texquitote, San Luis Potosí, this paper proposes a series of ideas concerning the art of building musical instruments. The branches of musicology that study musical instrument have never considered the importance of the process of building an instrument, althought this process constitutes a highly specialized task that frecuently has huge cultural connnotations and consequences. Such is the case in Texquitote and in many other places of the region known as the Huasteca, where the difference between ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’ music is extensive to the forms and tecniques employed in the construcction of the instruments, wich in some cases must follow strict ritual procedures. This paper proposes the term etnolaudería for this kind of studies.