Keywords
civil war
living human treasures
legal gap
generic concept
memory´s activation
hybrid culture
artistic expression
Keywords plus
Art and popular culture
Collective memory
Cultural heritage
Multiculturalism - El Salvador.
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Abstract
This article makes a reflection from Intangible cultural heritage about a popular artistic expression, that, for such a long timehas gained validity and reconnaissance among Salvadorian community but it is out of official artistic parameters because it’sa non academic character. From the question, is or not Chirajito clown Salvadorian intangible cultural heritage? is tackle thehistoric happening of Clown figure, the gaps in Salvadorian cultural legislation, generic concepts of international conventions,the hybridization that suffer in space and in time this kind of artistic expressions as a globalized but at the same time local, andurban product. Furthermore, the figure of Chirajito clown and his author Arístides Alfaro Samper are tackled from one of themost historic periods of his career. 1980´s decade. The civil war left a mark in Salvadorian’s collective memory. Chirajito, withhis appearance in Jardin Infantil´s program did it too. What is preserved to the future? What is forgotten? That is discussed inthis article. From the supposition that Salvadorians want to activate and preserve this character´s memory, the author giveshis own conclusions and proposes ways to do it.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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