Integrating the Malvinas Islands to the Argentine musical and aural map. The period of 1828-1833 as a microcosm of our sociocultural diversity

Abstract

The written sources of musical and sound practices that took place on the Malvinas Islands during the period 1828- 1833 are analyzed. The hypothesis that guides this study is that the town that commander Luis Vernet created in Puerto Luis, with nearly a hundred inhabitants, represented a sociocultural microcosm of Buenos Aires, on which it depended. The testimonies indicate that it included gauchos, indigenous people, afros and european immigrants, who interacted with musical and aural practices. Despite the advance in Argentine musicology, this territory has not received attention, so what is analyzed here contributes to completing our sound map.