BETWEEN NOISES AND SONORITIES: TOWARDS AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF SOUNDSCAPES IN THE CITY OF QUIBDÓ-CHOCÓ (COLOMBIA)

Abstract

This work aims to construct a sound ethnography developed in one district of the city of Quibdó (Colombia) during the months of January and February of 2013. This construction intends to be a description and analysis of the diverse forms in which soundscapes are created, in a place that, in turn, develops forms of social interaction. The sound, as the protagonist of this writing, actively participates in the ways of speaking, greeting and feeling the social life of the city, and in particular, the neighborhood in which I resided. Starting from the conception of music (or in this case, sound) as a process of social communication, it was possible to identify agencies, practices and world views within the neighborhoods. I will approach the above mentioned issues from the guidelines that anthropology of music offers, linking them with what is produced and lived in the sound expressions of the inhabitants of these places.