This paper reports an analysis of the roles of music performance in traditional patron saint celebrations from Afro-Colombian communities originally from the Pacific region but who currently live in the capital city of Bogotá. Since the late 1980s, a group of Afro-Colombian cultural leaders have used local traditional expressive cultural practices to construct social cohesion and a sense of collectivity among Afro-Colombians in the city. Here, I argue that the performative, expressive, and affective aspects inherent in Afro-Colombian patron saint celebrations can enable the potential of this transplanted practice for constructing ethnic identity and civic participation, thus catering to the needs of migrants and forcibly displaced people. Looking specifically at the case of the Virgin of Atocha saint wake in Bogotá, I discuss how several musicking, semiotic, and communicative techniques can be identified as facilitating social cohesion and cooperative behavior among participants. In this regard, creating an atmosphere overflowing with carefully selected social, expressive, cultural, and religious stimuli, as well as the idea of active participation, enables deep affective experiences that have an impact on elastic processes of identity construction and resignification of space and territory.

本文分析了音乐表演在来自太平洋地区但目前居住在首都波哥大的非裔哥伦比亚社区的传统守护神庆祝活动中的作用。自 1980 年代后期以来，一群非裔哥伦比亚文化领袖利用当地传统的表现性文化实践，在该市的非裔哥伦比亚人中构建了社会凝聚力和集体意识。在这里，我认为非裔哥伦比亚守护神庆祝活动所固有的表演性、表达性和情感方面可以使这种移植的实践具有构建民族认同和公民参与的潜力，从而满足移民和被迫流离失所者的需求。具体看波哥大的阿托查圣母苏醒的案例，我讨论了几个音乐，符号学和交际技术可以被确定为促进参与者之间的社会凝聚力和合作行为。在这方面，创造一种充满精心挑选的社会、表达、文化和宗教刺激的氛围，以及积极参与的理念，能够产生深刻的情感体验，对身份建构的弹性过程和空间和领土的重新定义产生影响.