De l’Obra del Cançoner Popular de Catalunya al folklore digital: Aproximació a cent anys d’evolució de les músiques de tradició oral

2022 is the hundredth anniversary of the Obra del Cançoner Popular de Catalunya (OCPC). The traditional material collected by the OCPC is extraordinary and demonstrates the common culture shared by the Catalan Countries. Nowadays, the question is if those traditional songs and stories are still present. A first approach suggests that the daily use of ethnopoetic and ethnomusicological material has lost much of its presence, but the ways that traditional material is transmitted today leads to the classification of variants of folk songs and stories into the following types: authentic variants; authentic and transcribed metavariants; author variants; and the contribution of the Digital Folklore Archives. This article analyses the evolution from the studies of an ethnic group —carried out by the OCPC— towards the studies of a sound group (Magrini 2003), a term that defines all those who share a love for the same music. Contemporary traditional music incorporates electronic music and inspiration from recordings of the past.