This article focuses its attention on the historical development of the Antioquenean trova, an improvised poetic musical expression of the tradition of the Northwestern Andean region of Colombia. The trova delves into the twentieth century rural and urban contexts in which, by communicating a regional and national reality, which is marked by the relationship between the armed conflict, violence, displacement, drug trafficking and information media explosion, the trova transits as one of the social mechanisms with which society seeks to communicate and to be communicated.