Nuevas perspectivas sobre las agrupaciones musicales universitarias: identidad, educación musical y transferencia social

This article aims to analyze how musical groups, both vocal and instrumental, arising in the university environment have become historical origin in active agents of musical education and dissemination, contributing to through its activity in some processes of social transformation. External specialists and, above all, university teachers in the areas of Music and Music Teaching, are the agents generally involved in its management and development, as well as in the creation of various environments of musical learning. Through their work, often selfless, they endorse the role of these musical groups as guarantors of the survival of such a valuable artistic manifestation present since the origins of the university itself. The university musical formations carry out, through their concert activity within and outside the academic institution itself, an important transfer work beyond its own educational and artistic benefits of the musical praxis that they give to their components. From the methodological point of view, a classification and analysis of the emerging musical formations is proposed in the university environment through the development of generic arguments that define them, approaching them from a perspective historical in which special emphasis is placed on the elements that determined its appearance. In the same way, it is urged to enhance its value from the point of conservation of intangible heritage, as well as to encourage it as reflection of a rich, dynamic and changing cultural reality, emphasizing its essential value in the field educational, skills and culture. Lastly, their diffusion and diversity are highlighted through the analysis of these groups in various universities, especially at the University of Zaragoza.