THE SONGWRITER OF MALLORCA

In today's article we will talk about an initiative of the Fundació Mallorca Literària. in this case, This is the creation of the Cançoner de Mallorca, a project that aims to compile the popular literary compositions of Mallorca virtually. So, The aim is to promote and give visibility and access to Mallorcan culture and literature thanks to the use of technology..

The Cançoner of Mallorca and the legacy of Rafael Ginard

Rafael Ginard dedicated his life to the compilation and elaboration of the Cançoner Popular de Mallorca, the most extensive songbook ever written in the Catalan language. This work contains more than fifteen thousand songs and has allowed the Mallorcan oral tradition to be established.. With the same spirit, The Mallorca Literària Foundation promoted the creation of the online Cançoner.

This literary platform is a collection space for the oral heritage of Mallorca, but it is not a digital version of Ginard's Cançoner. instead, It is a space for the compositions of that compilation to join those collected in others and the new and currently created songs created from the parameters of the traditional gloss.. So, The magnificent work of Rafael Ginard is taken as a starting point to incorporate other essential compilations by various authors., as well as the songs collected through campaigns by citizens.

The Cançoner online is a project whose content in traditional, but that uses current technology to put it at the service of the management of literary heritage. Además, The platform invites users to collaborate on the compilation of songs collectively.

The promoters of the project

Of course, the Cançoner is a project promoted by the Mallorca Literary Foundation through the Museu de la Paula, Pare Ginard House. Likewise, has had the support of the Department of Culture, Linguistic Heritage and Policy.

The Cançoner also has the involvement of the Ethnopoetic Research Group of the Balearic Islands, who has offered scientific advice and participates in the development of the description project.

On the other hand, Other organizations also participate and collaborate, like the Institution of Catalan Letters, at Editorial Moll and the Association of Glosadors de Mallorca.

 

The objectives of the online Cançoner

The Cançoner online is created with a number of important objectives in mind. Of course, The first of them is to carry out the task of preserving and disseminating Mallorcan culture., but there are other motivations too.

On the one hand, The Cançoner aims to compile and unify the different versions of the collected compositions. Además, wants to make accessible and streamline the process of both compilation and access by citizens to this oral heritage. For that reason, uses all the necessary technological tools.

On the other hand, active involvement of citizens is intended. that is to say, the online Cançoner wants to be a participatory space, Therefore, it encourages users to contribute those compositions that have not been previously collected.. Following this approach, It also aims to keep alive the oral tradition of Mallorca, encouraged oral creation by allowing the introduction into the database of all those new glosses that current users have composed and want to contribute to the project.

Ways to collaborate in the Songbook

There are many ways to collaborate with this initiative as users of the Cançoner online, since it is open to all citizens.

First, The use of the hashtags #glosatweet and #cançoner has been launched so that the glosses published on social networks can be easily compiled in the Cançoner. Thus, You can collaborate in expanding the database. On the other hand, You can also send the gloss directly to the Cançoner through the form found on the official website of the project.

In second place, a specific profile has been created on Facebook (facebook.com/MallorcaOral) where the glosses of Ginard's Cançoner will be published periodically. Everyone can participate by commenting on the published glosses, giving their opinion and interpretation of the compositions. You can also contribute your own creations through this channel.

By last, The Mallorca Literary Foundation has enabled an email, canconer@mallorcaliteraria.cat, where you can provide information about other virtual spaces or forums where glosses are published. So, They will be able to track the activity.

 

By Maite Vallejo

 

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References

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