HISTORY AND ORIGINA journey that began more than three centuries.The Carnival of Barranquilla has its remote origins in the carnival that came to America from Spain. So he has a spirit of renewal and change similar to that inspired this holiday season in Europe.The first carnival held in the city is lost in history, more than a century ago, when Barrie was a small population. However, by word of mouth, have circulated various stories about how people celebrated the Barranquilla carnival as always ingenuous, funny, festive, and above all healthy, have been allowed to keep a tradition that goes back three centuries.The carnival, of European origin, were introduced to America by the Spanish and Portuguese. The history of Barranquilla have come to the conclusion that was made in Cartagena de Indias, in colonial times as slaves party, by that time appeared on the streets black with traditional instruments and special costumes, dancing and singing.The traditional novena of La Candelaria, Cartagena de Indias, framed a magnificent dance in the eighteenth century a holiday granted to blacks brought from Africa muzzles. These parties are a source of the main dances of the Carnival of Barranquilla.In the second half of the nineteenth century, Barranquilla increased all sectors of its economy and exploited the geographical conditions that were beginning to put as main city in the Caribbean region. "The advantage of being at the mouth of the main waterway of Colombia, the Magdalena River, the port allows for river and sea, and its location in northern Colombia and in the area circum allows economic displacement Cartagena, Mompox, Santa Marta and the Bank, and many of its inhabitants who are coming to participate in Barranquilla prosperity, "said Robert Castillejo in his Carnival in Northern Colombia.Have not historically accurate data on the initial date of the first Carnival held in Barranquilla, his tradition is as remote as the first human settlements on the northern coast of Colombia. Here are some facts:1888 Emerged a figure called King Momo (symbol of the mask).1899 It created the position of President and Board Carnival organizer.1903 It organized the first Battle of Flowers by a proposal of Mr. Heriberto Vengoechea recover a carnival tradition of previous years. 1918 Was chosen for the first time a queen to preside over the festivities of Carnival. Alicia Lafaurie Roncallo was chosen. 1923 It institutionalizes this year from the era of the reign was suspended for five years. Tona lady is named Vengoechea Vives. 1967 It introduces a carnival event, the "Great stop" which takes place the second day of Carnival (Sunday). 1974 Esther Forero initiative of performing the first Guacherna, an event that rescued a lost tradition: cumbia and drums that night cheered the city's neighborhoods.1995 The Foundation created the Barranquilla Carnival King Momo parade down the street 17, dusting and the figure of King Momo, to chair this street performance. From that year until the date the Foundation named as King Momo to a figurehead or a leading figure in music and folklore. The parade, held parallel to the Battle of Flowers has become a tribute to those sectors that have been historical nucleus of the parties and where they arise with greater force and cultural richness popular manifestations of the carnival.2000 Continued innovations Carnival Carnaval de Barranquilla Foundation creates the parade Fantasy Parade, especially for the performance of groups with a proposal on a selected topic with a free and original choreography. It takes place on Carnival Monday and takes the same path and the Battle of Flowers Parade.2002 The Carnival of Barranquilla is declared by the Senate of the National Cultural Heritage.The Act states the party as a world heritage Barranquilla Patria is supported under the concept of Cultural Heritage as a huge field at the crossroads of different stories of customs, knowledge, habits, etc., which continually called popular tradition. As such, the Cultural Heritage is that which is claimed to be representative or master of a community and the Carnival of Barranquilla is the most complete, bright and spectacular expression of the country folk.2003 The Carnival of Barranquilla is declared by UNESCO a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. They announced the general director of UNESCO Koichiro Matsuura in a ceremony held at the headquarters of this organization in Paris on 7 November.The proclamation highlights the traditional and popular forms of expression such as: music, dance, ritual and mythology of this event. Also enhances its uniqueness, rootedness in the cultural tradition, the source of inspiration and cultural exchange that represents and excellence in the application of skills and technical qualities displayed by the participants at this event.Carnival Source Primitivo It is not easy to determine with certainty the origin of the word carnival. However, it is believed to come from "Carrus Navalis", a festival derived from the Roman Saturnalia.While there are vestiges of that holding in all the ancient peoples, it says that the fun of the Carnival had a religious character in its earliest beginnings, when they celebrated the new year-arrival of spring, "as a symbol of the rebirth of nature.In Greece and Rome included acts processions. In such common events themselves between Teutons and Celts, ostentatiously walked a boat with wheels within which certain groups ran masked dances and singing satirical songs in the midst of jubilant disorder.The habit of this "naval car" still remains in Reus (Spain) where for carnival times, placed on a cart, a boat of 70 tons and are carried away by ten horses, from the ship throw flowers and candy.The classic day of the carnival is Sunday Fifty, but they added to it on Monday and Tuesday. In many places the carnival begins on January 6. Centuries ago, the Venice carnival started on 26 December.King Momo, the son of sleep and night, presided over the Feast of Fools, celebrated in towns, villages and cities. Divinity of the joke, I love the biting satire and sarcasm of the most cruel and merciless irony, Momo became the "protector" of all those who indulged in revelry, the scandal of vice and excess.
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Battle of Flowers
The
first day of Carnival, the boxes are placed along theCumbiódromo and the street is closed to allow the passage of carriages and alluding to the "Battle of the Flowers. " The paradeis chaired by the Queen's carriage, dancing and throwing flowersto the audience, while a large troupe of princes and princessesaccompany walk while encouraging.
Also taking part are other coaches, more than 140 parades,dances, traditional costumes and allegorical characters of thetime, including highlighting the "Marimonda, hooded with very longnoses, the" gigantonas "dancing on stilts, the" dwarf big heads,with huge masks, "Shakira" and the classic "Cantinflas".
This beautiful battle is rooted in the beginning of the century whenthe country was the war of the Thousand Days (between 1,899 and1,902) and, as an act of solidarity, the mayor at the time ordered the suspension of the Carnival.
Over 1,900 and 1,902 did not organize the party. After signing thepeace, the mayor authorized the return to the festivities. That waswhen General Heriberto Bengoechea said, "Let's make a tribute to peace, change what we were experiencing, it was a battle to leada battle ... but with flowers. "
Barranquilla Club managers considered it of great interest and authorized the organization of the first Battle of Flowers on 21February 1903 and since then was established as the most important event during the Carnival.
Grand Parade
The next day, Sunday Carnival Parade takes place on the parade,featuring the popular dances Torito, the scribbly, that of pilanderasand cumbia, dance in which they fuse elements of indigenous, blackand white .
La cumbia simulates the courtship of a pair, characterized byelegance and subtle hip movements of women, to the sound ofdrums and flute million.
In contrast, Scribble dance symbolizes the triumph of life over death.The men, with a multicolored costume includes a coat with sequinsembroidered figures, carry a stick with the tip bent downward, or"doodle. " With him due to a character who acts as death, whichwants to take them and their wives, dressed in costumes of redrings, yellow and green.
Joselito's ashes will
In the Barrio Abajo, surrounded by his princes and lots of carnival, the Queen dressed in black, weeping and fires Joselito Carnaval,symbolizing the end of the festivities immediately, the curtain falls onthis great rumba Barranquilla.
dance and expression
The
first day of Carnival, the boxes are placed along theCumbiódromo and the street is closed to allow the passage of carriages and alluding to the "Battle of the Flowers. " The paradeis chaired by the Queen's carriage, dancing and throwing flowersto the audience, while a large troupe of princes and princessesaccompany walk while encouraging.Also taking part are other coaches, more than 140 parades,dances, traditional costumes and allegorical characters of thetime, including highlighting the "Marimonda, hooded with very longnoses, the" gigantonas "dancing on stilts, the" dwarf big heads,with huge masks, "Shakira" and the classic "Cantinflas".
This beautiful battle is rooted in the beginning of the century whenthe country was the war of the Thousand Days (between 1,899 and1,902) and, as an act of solidarity, the mayor at the time ordered the suspension of the Carnival.
Over 1,900 and 1,902 did not organize the party. After signing thepeace, the mayor authorized the return to the festivities. That waswhen General Heriberto Bengoechea said, "Let's make a tribute to peace, change what we were experiencing, it was a battle to leada battle ... but with flowers. "
Barranquilla Club managers considered it of great interest and authorized the organization of the first Battle of Flowers on 21February 1903 and since then was established as the most important event during the Carnival.
Grand ParadeThe next day, Sunday Carnival Parade takes place on the parade,featuring the popular dances Torito, the scribbly, that of pilanderasand cumbia, dance in which they fuse elements of indigenous, blackand white .
La cumbia simulates the courtship of a pair, characterized byelegance and subtle hip movements of women, to the sound ofdrums and flute million.
In contrast, Scribble dance symbolizes the triumph of life over death.The men, with a multicolored costume includes a coat with sequinsembroidered figures, carry a stick with the tip bent downward, or"doodle. " With him due to a character who acts as death, whichwants to take them and their wives, dressed in costumes of redrings, yellow and green.
Joselito's ashes willIn the Barrio Abajo, surrounded by his princes and lots of carnival, the Queen dressed in black, weeping and fires Joselito Carnaval,symbolizing the end of the festivities immediately, the curtain falls onthis great rumba Barranquilla.
dance and expression
LA CUMBIA
"Cumbia is an artistic expression of the Caribbean coast, from where
spread throughout the interior of Colombia and was screened inglobal terms.
Outside is synonymous with Colombia cumbia: cumbia is thus theair
Music that we have identified internationally.
"Cumbia is an artistic expression of the Caribbean coast, from where
spread throughout the interior of Colombia and was screened inglobal terms.
Outside is synonymous with Colombia cumbia: cumbia is thus theair
Music that we have identified internationally.
DANCE OF SCRIBBLE
Doodle the Dancing with the passage of time has become very
representative of the Carnival of Barranquilla, which amounts to nomore
a "natural destination" since it expresses the opposite of life
and death, is a universal symbol and allegory are all
carnival. The doodle is a wooden hook to the farmer
coastal use as a working tool in their tasks
countryside, while machete clearing the undergrowth.
Formally, the analogy is with the scythe in his figuration
allegorical, uses the death.
representative of the Carnival of Barranquilla, which amounts to nomore
a "natural destination" since it expresses the opposite of life
and death, is a universal symbol and allegory are all
carnival. The doodle is a wooden hook to the farmer
coastal use as a working tool in their tasks
countryside, while machete clearing the undergrowth.
Formally, the analogy is with the scythe in his figuration
allegorical, uses the death.
CONGO DE ORO
El Congo de Oro is the highest prize awarded by the Carnival ofBarranquilla.
On the music front, this medal has achieved its greatest importance in the Caribbean basin among the musical groups and musicalgroups that come Carnival Monday compete in the festival orchestraand accordion.
El Congo de Oro is the highest prize awarded by the Carnival ofBarranquilla.
On the music front, this medal has achieved its greatest importance in the Caribbean basin among the musical groups and musicalgroups that come Carnival Monday compete in the festival orchestraand accordion.
DANCE MAPAL
The presence of blacks in the Carnival of Barranquilla is
invaluable. They are represented in the various groups
folk who move from the municipalities and townships
where there are near settlements, as
belonging to the Canal Dock area, and also by
palenqueros community (originally from the village of San Basilio
of Palenque, Bolívar), who has lived in slum areas
Barranquilla popular for many decades. This presence
is significant black dances full of energy and sensuality
body and results in a variety of frantic musical airs
as Mapalé, Seresesé, Puya, Bullerengue, shock of black and
sextet. All of them are, overall, an unparalleled contribution
illustrates the way riches musical and dance pluralism that
characterizes this festival of Caribbean holidays.
The presence of blacks in the Carnival of Barranquilla is
invaluable. They are represented in the various groups
folk who move from the municipalities and townships
where there are near settlements, as
belonging to the Canal Dock area, and also by
palenqueros community (originally from the village of San Basilio
of Palenque, Bolívar), who has lived in slum areas
Barranquilla popular for many decades. This presence
is significant black dances full of energy and sensuality
body and results in a variety of frantic musical airs
as Mapalé, Seresesé, Puya, Bullerengue, shock of black and
sextet. All of them are, overall, an unparalleled contribution
illustrates the way riches musical and dance pluralism that
characterizes this festival of Caribbean holidays.
ALLIGATOR DANCE
(Dance of relationship)
This dance is originally from Slough, a town of the department of
Magdalena, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Has its roots
in oral tradition, with the fables and myths that arose around
parochial history of the early nineteenth century: in the neighboring port
Cachimbero, an alligator in the swamp Bujato Tomasita ate,
a girl fisherman's daughter, on the date it was celebrating its
birthday, January 20, the day of San Sebastian, which date from
Colony was considered the beginning of the carnival, nine days before
celebration of the Virgen de la Candelaria Purification.
This dance is originally from Slough, a town of the department of
Magdalena, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Has its roots
in oral tradition, with the fables and myths that arose around
parochial history of the early nineteenth century: in the neighboring port
Cachimbero, an alligator in the swamp Bujato Tomasita ate,
a girl fisherman's daughter, on the date it was celebrating its
birthday, January 20, the day of San Sebastian, which date from
Colony was considered the beginning of the carnival, nine days before
celebration of the Virgen de la Candelaria Purification.
conclusion
with this project I want to make other people know the folklore of ourland, barranquilla and getting other people to see these festivitiesrealistic On our Colombia (Barranquilla)
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