Resumen

BITRAN GOREN, Yael. Baltasar Samper and folk research in Mexico. Notes on a forgotten Catalan exile. Sig. his [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.48, pp.340-383.  Epub 01-Ago-2022. ISSN 1665-4420.

Baltasar Samper, composer and researcher of folk music, and native of Catalonia, arrived in Mexico in 1942, together with the pianist and companion Dolors Porta as part of the Spanish exile. His stay in Mexico, plagued with inconveniences, allowed him to create a professional research model of folk music for the recently founded Section of Musical Research of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA, by its acronym in Spanish), as a result of his earlier work in Barcelona for the project l’Obra del Cançoner Popular de Catalunya. Based on his papers housed by the archives of National Center for Research, Documentation and Dissemination of Music (CENIDIM, for its Spanish acronym) and other sources, this paper presents his experiences in Mexico, which given the circumstances proved rather frustrating. Samper has been largely ignored both in musicology at large and in the literature on the Spanish exile in Mexico.

Palabras llave : Spanish exile; folk music; musical research; cultural missions; INBA.

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