Discursos musicales y mediaciones. Migración y asentamiento de comunidades afrodescendientes en Cali-Colombia

The migration of people and communities Afro-Colombian from the Colombian Pacific to Cali has been extensive and permanent during the last five decades. This article reflects on the music of this region of the country as an aspect of persistence and resilience of the culture of this migrants in their process of settlement and adaptation to the city. It is based on the hypothesis that letters/lyrics, rhythms and instrumentation have contributed to the conformation of spatialities that range from official and external media representation, to the resemantization of sense in the cities of arrival and reception of these migrants. By using the Theory of Social Discursivity by Eliseo Veron (1999), and the Theory of Mediations by Jesus Martin-Barbero (1987), it is tried to establish which have been the conditions of production and of recognition of the discursivity of settlement process of the black communities in the Cali environment, and how has contributed the spaces of social and cultural mediation to the cultural imaginary of Cali as the capital of Afrocolombianness. It is concluded that, since oral culture is the transmission practice of the Colombian Pacific, musical lyrics would be a way of inheriting values rooted ancestrally in those territories.