Composing the Nation
       BAMBUCO MUSIC AND COLOMBIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY 1870 - 1930
                                                                                                                                                                             “Without the bambuco, the fatherland would not be conceived”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Eduardo Caballero Calderón (b.1910) 
In this paper, I will view music's inclusion in nationalist discourse to tease out the workings of the official doctrine of mestizaje in Colombia.  In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Colombian elite composers of classical art music used the mestizo bambuco genre to present Colombian distinctiveness.  This simultaneously excluded non-mestizo conceptions of Colombian identity, canceling out black claims to Colombian-ness, and reducing indigenous identity to a purely discursive foil to pure whiteness in the creation of the mestizo nation.
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