Barandiaran-Amarika, A. (Asier)

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    El campeonato de «bertsolaris» de Euskal Herria como institución canonizadora de las melodías, de los ejercicios y de las estrofas de «bertsos»
    (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2021) Barandiaran-Amarika, A. (Asier)
    Bertsolaritza competitions have their climax in the Euskal Herriko Bertsolari Txapelketa (Bertsolaritza Championship of Euskal Herria) every four years. It is a championship with different phases and with a great final where eight bertsolari compete and where it is decided who will “reign” for four years, holding the txapela (the trophy given to the winner). This is an act of canonization where repertoires of exercises, types of bertso (stanza metrics) and melodies (some new and others “recovered from the periphery”) are shown to the general public, disseminated in the media and judged by the jury. All this means that some melodies, some bertsolaristic exercises, and some stanzas are incorporated into the center of the cultural system of bertsolaritza. In this paper we follow up on these three parameters taking as a basic reference the last three bertsolari competition finals (2009; 2013; 2017), and also try to verify if this “canonization” of the final of the championship has any verification in sessions of ordinary bertsolari or in territorial championships. Some articles by scholars from the field of bertsolaritza will be used as qualitative information that supports the explanation of the processes of “canonization” in improvised oral genres such as this one, where championships, as an institution, play a key role. The psychological conditioning that the txapelketa plays in bertsolaritza and in the jury will also be examined, assessed and evaluated in this paper.