A Silence That Speaks: Narrated Sonoridades of the Chande in the Dry Region of the Colombian Caribbean

This text is the result of a research project that is being developed in the the dry region of the Colombian Caribbean. The project deals with languages that are part of the re-creation of ancestral matters of indigenous peoples. For the specific case of Chande, we sought to understand the narrated sonoridades that make up the music and dance of black communities in the department of Cesar. The construction of the text was accomplished through a dynamic dialogue with members of these communities, where the main objective was to value and respect the silence cultivated by the community members. It seeks to put into consideration that the processes through which people in this part of the national territory live go through an exercise of retraction of symbolic content that guide collective experience.