ABSTRACT
"Vocal polyphonies of the wagogo gogo, in Central Tanzania" is the epigraph which summarizes the doctoral thesis the author is working on nowadays in the C.N.R.S. in Paris (L.A.C.I.T.O.), and whose first approximations give content to this article. His proyect has been selected and financed by the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation of the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (Foreign Office). His final work will be published by Schott London: a first book on children´s repertoire and a second one on his thesis. Fond of African music, Vallejo has travelled on his own initiative and on many different times to this continent with the aim of learning and working with its music and musicians "in situ".


KEYWORDS: Music, language, cultural identity, transmission of values, polyphonie structures, oral literature.

ABSTRACT
"Vocal polyphonies of the wagogo gogo, in Central Tanzania" is the epigraph which summarizes the doctoral thesis the author is working on nowadays in the C.N.R.S. in Paris (L.A.C.I.T.O.), and whose first approximations give content to this article. His proyect has been selected and financed by the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation of the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (Foreign Office). His final work will be published by Schott London: a first book on children´s repertoire and a second one on his thesis. Fond of African music, Vallejo has travelled on his own initiative and on many different times to this continent with the aim of learning and working with its music and musicians "in situ".


KEYWORDS: Music, language, cultural identity, transmission of values, polyphonie structures, oral literature.