Fomento de la tradición oral en tres municipios del Departamento del Cesar.

Abstract

The present work is the result of the journalistic investigation developed in the department of Cesar between August 2021 and February 2022, with the purpose of rescuing stories framed in the oral tradition and the costumbrista imaginary of the municipalities of Manaure, La Paz and San Diego, to later position them in the digital media Panorama Cultural, a cultural newspaper with great influence in the Colombian Caribbean region. It is the echo of the voices that narrate the armed conflict and the post-conflict, the myths and legends; they are the spoken stories, product of the dynamics of citizen participation and historical events, as well as the narrative present in the vallenato songs. In the state of the art consulted, media publications and local, regional, national and international web portals were found that, in one way or another, seek to enhance the oral and written tradition of the territories. One of them is 'Unveiling the mystery of the "apa oá" of the great Alejo Durán', which claims the liveliness of dialect expressions, without discrimination of regions or border limits between peoples and/or countries. The theoretical support is given by categories such as 'Orality as a biological and cultural development' and 'Orality as an exercise of restitution of rights', which in turn are based on the contributions of theorists such as Lev Vygotsky, Jan Vansina or Nancy Morejón. The techniques used for data collection were qualitative interview, participant observation and non-participant observation. Some of the most important findings found were: the library that works in the house of a family victim of paramilitary violence, the lost magical realism of the population of Manaure, and the man who refuses to let the carnival tradition die in the town La Paz.