Resumo
This dissertation inquires into the process of locating socio-musical relations and practices, pertaining Galician Music, in the context of the International Festival of the Celtic World of Ortigueira (1978 to the present). It aims to show, first of all, that the festival itself was a result of the process of spatialization of Galician Music in post-Franco Ortigueira. This process was lead and developed by the members of the Escola de Gaitas de Ortigueira, a grassroots, free of charge music school founded in 1975, made up of voluntary teachers, children, and young people from this town. The initial process of spatialization of Galician Music at the IFCW (1978-1983), together with the broader process of spatialization of Galician Music in Ortigueira, produced an alternative sense of locality in Santa Marta de Ortigueira. Although pretty much absent from present-day Ortigueira, this ?alternative locality? is still embedded in the collective meaning of the festival, and local Galician-music performers are struggling to maintain it. Contrasting the historical emergence of the IFCW with the present state of the festival (2011-2013), this work expounds on the changing process of spatialization of Galician Music within the IFCW, highlighting, though, its continuity as a practice of resistance.
Palabras chave
Galician music. Music festivals. Spanish transition. Spatialization of culture. Autoconstruction.