Vallenato is a musical genre from the Colombian Caribbean, related to the history of this region located on the shores of the Caribbean Sea, originally performed by minstrels, usually traveling peasants who rode on mules along the Magdalena Grande region with an accordion in their hands. The savanna landscapes and town festivals were a source of inspiration to compose songs that over time became classics. The purpose of this research is to analyze the rhetorical components within the narratives of the original vallenato genre, particularly the presence of elements such as inventio, dispositio and elocutio. For this purpose, the corpus was created from the selection of some of the main minstrels of this musical genre and, in addition, compositions by these performers. It was found that the original vallenato genre is mainly made up of true stories, for the most part, told in the form of a...

Vallenato is a musical genre from the Colombian Caribbean, related to the history of this region located on the shores of the Caribbean Sea, originally performed by minstrels, usually traveling peasants who rode on mules along the Magdalena Grande region with an accordion in their hands. The savanna landscapes and town festivals were a source of inspiration to compose songs that over time became classics. The purpose of this research is to analyze the rhetorical components within the narratives of the original vallenato genre, particularly the presence of elements such as inventio, dispositio and elocutio. For this purpose, the corpus was created from the selection of some of the main minstrels of this musical genre and, in addition, compositions by these performers. It was found that the original vallenato genre is mainly made up of true stories, for the most part, told in the form of a...