The Collective Jirondai Project: Reaffirmation of indigenous identity through its music in Costa Rica

 

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Auteur: Vargas Mena, Emilio
Format: artículo original
Statut:Versión publicada
Date de publication:2026
Description:This article focuses on a sui-generis musical and visual arts project, undertook by the collective known as Jirondai Project. It stems from a horizontal collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous musicians, in order to research and compile the ancestral music, bringing it back to the families and communities, recreating and revitalizing it through the arts and technology, integrating grandparents, adults, youngsters, boys and girls in participatory workshops. Jirondai Project has become, for two decades, a powerful creative decolonizing exercise of intercultural initiatives and encounters, multiple and diverse, and successive discoveries of great value that seem never ending.
Pays:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Langue:Español
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OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/22352
Accès en ligne:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/repertorio/article/view/22352
Mots-clés:Costa Rica
indigenous music
indigenous identity
Ngöbe-Buglé People
Bribri People
Cabecar People
visual arts
decolonization
participatory methodology
música indígena
identidad indígena
Pueblo Ngöbe-buglé
Pueblo Bribri
Pueblo Cabécar
artes visuales
descolonización
metodología participativa