De la performance musicale dans la Guyane traditionnelle : expression cognitive singulière d’une musique-verbe

Resumen

Guianese culture and traditional music, here evoked, are various. It
is more a transcultural process that, along centuries, gave an original result born
in the Americas, in Guiana in this case. It is a form of refoundation, of
recreation of cultures and new human beings generally called Creoles. The
musical performance, that I study here, is the echo of social and cultural space
of this reformulation of thought, life, and conception of the world. It is, as well,
a mean of transposition and transformation of the values issued of diverse
sources and categories. It is in no way a second-rate cultural practice, as it is the
place where were born philosophies and actions for common life as well as for
individual life. This organization of the musical experience requires several levels of readings to better understand the underlying performance that is the
issue discussed here. What is then the subject of the musical performance in
French Guianese traditional society? What are the implementation techniques
and the intrinsic forms of knowledge? What is the creation process and for what
goal? Without a doubt, questions arising from this issue are still numerous and
varied. And the answers one can give are just as numerous. The few basic
questions mentioned above are a theme for the reflection conducted here by the
author on traditional music of French Guiana.