Paper short abstract:

In this paper I want to link the data found about musicians and their work to try to understand if there was a process of construction of a national musical culture in Colombia during the period of study. In doing so, I also wish to explain the factors that associated to produce a national musical culture.

Paper long abstract:

In this paper I wish to share the findings, questions and answers that I have come across through my research about the link between music and politics in Colombia during the second half of the nineteenth century. By proposing a link between the data about found about musicians and their work I want to try to understand if there was a process of construction of a national musical culture in Colombia during this period. In doing so, I also wish to explain the factors that associate in order to produce such musical culture. The first factor is the role of the musicians in this process; the second factor is the role of the concert as a social space/activity in which a type of culture is exercised and promoted as social heritage and the third factor is the role of support networks which stimulated the musicians' work through their expectations about that artistic production. The formation of a musical national culture during the second half of the nineteenth century can be synonymous with the formation of an urban musical culture, the emergence of new patterns of consumption and the construction of social identities by the groups that formed Colombia society at the time. Through the understanding of these interrelated dynamics is possible to comprehend the process of production of a national representation in/through music.