ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the analysis of one of the formalization moments of the heterogeneous ensembles of sonorities called cuarteto característico as 'popular Cordobese music', which happened midyear in 2000. It considers that the new invention of the cuarteto, now as heritage, was produced within the context of the transformation of culture into expediency. The chapter also considers the legitimization of the figure of a 'cultural manager' as a technician specialized in designing and administrating cultural policies. It finds the state in the magnificent iridescence of its production, in the 'performances of state' or ceremonies organized by administrative nationalized bodies that produce the state as a defined agent of the social process. The chapter observes how the state was produced in Córdoba, by analyzing the heritagization of the cuarteto. The municipal state made the cuarteto a heritage and in this process it invented itself through the creation of duties and the forming of new relations of interdependence.
