Cambio y continuidad en los sones de fandango: Puebla y Veracruz

Abstract

This paper proposes a discussion on musical change based in the field work of Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster and Roberto Téllez Girón. The collections of sones de fandango or huapangos that they gathered in the 1930’s and 40’s are compared with the current field work of the author in Veracruz and a small region of the Sierra Norte de Puebla. Musical change and social change are not a parallel process; plus, each musical system behaves in a different way as time goes by and social changes occurr. The tradicional dances of Puebla show continuity and precision in oral transmision, while the sones de fandango in Puebla are replaced with new musical genres. On the other hand the sones of Veracruz show a deep change in the tuning system and a continuity in the musical system as a whole.