Drum-Spinning: The Afro-diasporic weaving of song and drum, with Magdalena Moreno Morales

Within the framework of the cycle Colonial Memory II. Tuning in to the whispers, the museum is presenting a sung conversation with the Afro-transvestite singer-songwriter and performing artist Magdalena Moreno Morales. 

The drum vibrates, communicates and remembers; its rhythms weave together the memories of Africa and its diaspora in Colombia, resonating in the voices that are now rewriting history from the standpoint of the body and of diverse identities. Magdalena Moreno, “La Morena del Chicamocha”, is inviting us to a sung conversation in which the drum accompanies the word, the territory and resistance. This is a sound experience that reclaims the Afro-Colombian traditional music of the Caribbean and the Magdalena River region, such as bullerengue and sung dances. From an Afro-transvestite perspective, the performance positions bodies and their lived experiences as narratives in contention with colonialism: singing, narrating and creating music as acts of resistance, memory, joy, dignity and re-existence.