by Joaquín Díaz · Ámbito Ediciones, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788486770587
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«La memoria permanente: Reflexiones sobre la tradición» is the essay by Joaquín Díaz, published by Ámbito Ediciones in paperback (112 pages, in Spanish).
This essay defends traditional culture, transmitted orally or in writing and capable of identifying a community, as living knowledge that must be preserved without renouncing progress. The author analyzes the crisis of this permanent memory, proposes caring for its sources, and outlines strategies for children and young people to accept it without shame.
Published in 1991, it is part of the Monografías de Ámbito collection and includes bibliographic references (p. 107).
For readers interested in anthropology, folklore and traditional culture of Spain.
Joaquin Diaz González is a Spanish ethnomusicologist, folklorist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for his work researching and collecting Spanish folk songs and folk lore, and for his extensive recording and performing of this literature as a musician. In 1980 he founded the monthly journal Revista de folklore and created the Centro Castellano de Estudios Folklóricos at the University of Valladolid where he is a professor. He was elected a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de la Purísima Concepción in 1982, and served as the vice president of the Sociedad Ibérica de Etnomusicología in 1993–1994. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes Diaz González as having a "prominent place as a Spanish folklorist".
