This article raises the issue of the role played by musical and dance performances in the social construction of belongings from the Sotavento’s region folkloric practices named Fandango and Jarana music. These are still popular nowadays even though they appeared during the colonial era. Based on a ten-year intensive survey, it investigates about the different periods these cultural practices took part into the social construction of communality, connectedness, and a feeling of belonging, while taking part to different action fields. Then it puts the light on the contemporary articulation modes, at a local, national and transnational/diasporic scale and their social effects.