“Con los comunes requintillos del país”: guitarra y vihuela en el tejido social y cultural de Durango entre los siglos XVII y XIX: “Con los comunes requintillos del país”: guitar and vihuela in the social and cultural warp of Durango between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries

Abstract

This article presents an unprecedented approach to the processes of changes and continuities of the uses and functions of the guitar and/or vihuela patented within the elite ―religious and civil― and popular groups in the urban and rural space of Durango, between the period corresponding to the first stage of the bishopric in the seventeenth century and the late nineteenth during the Porfiriato. This article aims to show that, throughout the period indicated, the uses of these chordophones were configured in common functions related to the transmission of human feelings, the consolidation of the political objectives established by hegemony, a sociability that put in communication the “high” and the “low” culture and the achievement of social prestige.

Key words: Durango, social uses and functions, guitar, vihuela, culture.