ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the multiple ways in which a musical tradition moves as a socially recognised set of doing. It emphasizes the relevance of looking at the dynamics of culture by analysing the ways in which practices are sustained and transformed across networks of relationships. The book addresses the unfolding of musical performances, the historical diffusion and transmission of specific ways of doing, the travels of practitioners, the transportation of musical instruments and strings, and the dissemination and adaptation of know-how are the most prominent forms of mobility. It focuses on the complexities that stem from the enactment of son jarocho in relation to systems of meaning and representation. The book provides a descriptions of how assorted elements are assembled to put cultural practice in motion.
