El revival del rabel en Cantabria

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In this paper, we seek to explore and gain closer insight into the musical practices of the rebec in the Cantabrian región of Spain. These practices have experienced an interesting phenomenon of «revival» in recent decades. We understand the term «revival» to mean a musical and sociocultural movement in which two torces, tradition and innovation, opérate simultaneously. We will deal with the presence and motivations as well as the properties and main tendencies of this phenomenon. We will analyse the diiferent transformations that this «revival» brings in múltiple aspects. On the one hand, these transformations affect the construction, performance practices and repertory of the rebec; and the origin and composition of the performers on the other. We will also explain the changes in the occasions, uses and functions of the new performance practices in comparison with the former ones considered to be traditional. Finally, we point out the applicability of this study to further exploration of a relationship between the revival of the rebec in Cantabria and similar processes occurring in other regions of Spain.