The black influence on Carnivals and other artistic expressions. Colombian case

Abstract

Emphasizes in the vast Caribbean mestizo tradition of Tierra Firme their close encounter of cultures, crossing the stage of the cities from their most primal spaces: the Cartagena sand and the immediate jungles of the Gulf to the Sierra Nevada, seat of the peoples receiving a blackness as denied as evident and developments in all kinds of things, but especially in the field of the arts of sound and speech, which are due to the black people, actor of great transformations with their constant spirit of struggle to overcome the sad situation in which the story engulfed him, and which he has managed to overcome by printing his character throughout America, especially from this geographical area. The notes in which the experiences of the street poet Sobrino Caro are collected refer to the imprint left by him in the local color of his city, Cartagena de Indias.