Women from Pinar del Río in musical pedagogy during the first half of the 20th century

Abstract

In this article, the authors addressed the insufficient academic treatment offered to the participation of women from Pinar del Río in musical pedagogy. Therefore, it proposes a study on the participation of women from Pinar del Río in musical pedagogy during the first half of the 20th century, from a socio-historical, cultural and gender perspective. Various theoretical methods were used such as dialectical, historical-logical, ethnographic, as well as analysis and synthesis. Within the empirical methods, they apply the interview and the documentary analysis, in addition to the publicist sources of the investigated historical period, together with the oral sources. As a result, it shows the contribution of women from Pinar del Río to the teaching of music with solid contributions to didactics, from their work in the academies, in a context characterized by a rigid social organization, in which professionalism was seriously damaged by erroneous approaches. Of gender, by rejecting free female public expression, minimizing their training capacities and the knowledge they transmitted. Also damaged by the effects of Pinar del Río's function of economic, political and social subordination, as a historical region to the nearby capital of Havana. Therefore, to make visible the contributions made by Pinar del Río women in this sense, to contribute to dignifying their image in the field of artistic culture, education and pedagogy from Pinar del Río and Cuba, as well as to strengthen the identity and the local intangible cultural heritage and nationals.