Abstract

NARBONDO, Fabián Arocena. About meetings and returns: ethical debates in a research on accordionists and bandoneonists from northern Uruguay. Rev. urug. Antropología y Etnografía [online]. 2024, vol.9, n.1, e106.  Epub June 01, 2024. ISSN 2393-7068.  https://doi.org/10.29112/ruae.v9i1.2216.

The text presents some reflections and experiences that emerge from a research on accordionists and bandoneonists from northern Uruguay, particularly while devising a concrete case of return, as a way to answer to the issues raised by the protagonists with a specific action. In the search to understand their interests so as to shape this potential return, the first step consisted of characterizing the musical practices with bellows instruments with the greatest possible clarity, with special focus on the particular forms of learning and building the repertoire observed on the individuals who play such instruments. The action finally took shape as an event that occurred (with the help of many people) on December 2nd, 2023, in the city of Paso Campamento, Artigas, Uruguay, and which I named Encuentro de Fuelles y Afines (A meeting of bellows and peers). The whole process that led to the concretion of the event generated ethical debates on the manner of returning, and also on the potential usage of the recordings that had been produced in the previous personal encounters. Finally, holding the Meeting allowed for a new instance of ethnographical observation. Therefore, the text reveals how conclusions were drawn - both from the ethical debates and the observations during the Meeting - that suggest distinctive characteristics of the musical practices of the researched region.

Keywords : accordionists and bandoneonists; oral learning; return to protagonists; audiovisual recording and return.

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