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Abstract

This paper is the product of an extensive journey through the Zapotec communities of El Rincón in Sierra Juárez de Oaxaca, accompanying the wind band Morelos of Santiago Yagallo. The members and their director allowed me to be by their side for several years when they visited neighboring communities during their patron saint festivities. The approach with them was vital, since they enjoy great prestige and respect among the authorities and citizens of the surrounding towns, this allowed an exchange of knowledge and views when talking to them and not about them, following the logic of oral history, where the interview as a conversation gained importance. The musicians sheltered me to be able to talk with the citizens, gathering a series of narrations about the experience of the elderly in community life, the place in which they are placed by it, their role in the construction and reinforcement of the bonds with the new generations and, of course, the place of memory in the resignification of the elements that make up the identity mosaic