Resumen de Western Chaco Flutes Players Revisited
This paper explores Chané flutes and their music in the western Chaco region. Audiovisual material recorded and edited as part of fieldwork allows us to analyze some aspects of flute music in the ritual context of the arete guasu (big feast). Through this research medium we were able to observe the centrality of flute music in conducting the ritual through its different phases, or even its efficacy in inducing certain movements among dancers and other participants. The text also examines some possibilities for creative manipulation based on the stylistic standardization of the flute playing tradition among Chané people. We focus our description on the appropriation of old and new materials for making the flutes according to traditional patterns, and on the performance of old and new repertoires that are adapted to match with the established ritual structure.
