Migration and Migrancia: two key aspects to the configuration of the identity of musicians in Crónica de Músicos y Diablos of Gregorio Martínez

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate that the migration and the migrancia are two key aspects to the configuration of the identity of migrants. Analysis of trip making the Guzmán family Crónica de Músicos y Diablos of Gregorio Martínez allows demonstrate that not only migration constitutes a geographical move towards Lima, nor only implies consequences social or economic; Conversely, migration also involves an invisible trip whose effects are mainly cultural and identity, and whom he called migrancia. The latter requires the abandonment of certain elements of the culture of origin thus appropriating the elements of the new culture. It is set, therefore, an identity that is located between two cultural spaces.