Diferencia entre revisiones de «Testamentaría de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo/ENG»

After Antonio Vanegas Arroyo died, on 14 March 1917, his son Blas remained in charge of the family legacy, as he had been working with his late father. From then onwards, the prints were published under the name of “Testamentaría de Vanegas Arroyo”. Very soon, Blas’ sons, especially Arsacio, became also involved in the business, almost exclusively publishing religious long sellers (such as the novena for the December festivities) until the middle of the 1950s.

      The testamentary production of the Vanegas Arroyo press consisted mainly of reprints of successful items, such as religious prints, songbooks, and plays. They also printed, however, newer material such as songs, corridos, and calaveras mocking contemporary political figures. Also, most probably as a response to the growing competition caused by other presses in the capital (such as Eduardo Guerrero’s), the descendants of Vanegas Arroyo produced “new” serial compilations of old songs in broadsheet format, titled, for instance, “Edición especial de canciones, corridos, coplas, versos y poesías célebres”. Also noteworthy is the serial collection of chapbooks called El folklore nacional, illustrated on the front page with the face of the publisher himself as an expression of the vague attempts by the Vanegas Arroyo family (encouraged by other intellectuals and artists of the post-revolutionary cultural nationalism) to classify the publisher as one of the “folklorists”, that is as a collector of popular culture.