Andrés Pardo Tovar

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Andrés Pardo Tovar (born March 5, 1911 in Bogotá , † August 31, 1972 ibid) was a Colombian sociologist , music ethnologist and folklorist.

Life

Pardo Tovar studied law, social and political science. He worked in Chile, where he published in the Revista Musical Chilena and worked on the musical development of Cono Sur . For the Consejo Interamericana organized a music ethnology conference in Cartagena.

In 1959 he became director of the Centro de Estudios Folclóricos y Musicales (CEDEFIM) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia . He has taught at both the Conservatorio Nacional and the University's Faculty of Science and Education, and has given courses in sociology. From 1969 he was director of Radio Nacional .

Pardo Tovar has published on 20th century Colombian painting, the novelists Rómulo Gallegos and Tomás Carasquilla and the poet Vicente Espinel . His main work La cultura musical en Colombia was published in 1966 as part of the Historia Extensa de Colombia in Bogotá.

Pardo Tovar's students included a. Adolfo Mejía , Jacqueline Nova Sondag , Blas Emilio Atehortúa and Gustavo Escobar Larrazábal .

Works

  • El folclore en la obra de Tomás Carrasquilla , 193?
  • Romulo Gallegos. Novelista de América , 1944 (?)
  • Voces y cantos de América [dos ensayos literarios y cuatro paralelos críticos] , Bogotá 1945
  • Iberoamérica en su música, a propósito del segundo Festival de Caracas , Montevideo 1958
  • Antonio M. Valencia, artista integral , Calí 1958
  • Los cantares tradicionales del Baudó , Bogotá 1960
  • El clave bien temperado de Juan Sebastian Bach; notas explicativas , 1961
  • with Jesús Pinzón Urrea : Rítmica y melódica del folclor Chocoano , Bogotá 1961
  • Perfil y semblanza de Vicente Espinel , Santiago de Chile 1962
  • with Jesús Bermúdez Silva : La guitarrería popular de Chiquinquirá , Bogotá 1963
  • La cultura musical en Colombia , Bogotá 1966
  • La poesía popular colombiana y sus orígenes españoles , Bogotá 1966
  • with Santiago Sebastían and Carlos Arbelaez Camacho : Las artes en Colombia , Bogotá 1967
  • with Jesús Pinzón Urrea and O Nunez Navas : Antologi´a musical de Columbia , 1968
  • Boyacá en la Independencia , Bogotá 1969
  • with Carlos Arturo Torres : Idola fori , 1969
  • Historia de la Filosofía y Filosofía de la Historia , Bogotá 1970