The militant song movement in Latin America : Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina / edited by Pablo Vila.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vila, Pablo, 1952- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ballads and songs--Latin America--History and criticism.

Political ballads and songs.

Popular music--Latin America--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Latin America.

Genre:

Political ballads and songs.

Physical Description:

ix, 282 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2014.

Summary:

Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s underwent a profound and often violent process of social change. From the Cuban Revolution to the massive guerrilla movements in Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, and most of Central America; to the democratic socialist experiment of Allende in Chile; to the increased popularity of socialist-oriented parties in Uruguay, and para-socialist movements, such as the Juventud Peronista in Argentina; the idea of social change was in the air. Although this topic has been explored from a political and social point of view, there is an aspect that has remained fairly unexplored. The cultural-and especially musical-dimension of this movement, so vital in order to comprehend the extent of its emotional appeal, has not been fully documented. Without an account of how music was pervasively used in the construction of the emotional components that always accompany political action, any explanation of what occurred in Latin America during this period will be always partial. This book is an initial attempt to overcome this deficit. The Militant Song Movement in Latin America examines the history politically oriented popular music in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina at the peak of its popularity (from the mid-1960s to the coup d'états in the mid-1970s), considering their different political stances and musical deportments. The book highlights the contributions of the most important musicians of the movement: Violeta Parra, Victor Jara, Patricio Manns, Quilapayún and Inti-Illimani in Chile; Daniel Viglietti, Alfredo Zitarrosa, and Los Olimareños in Uruguay, and Atahualpa Yupanqui, Horacio Guarany, Mercees Sosa, Marián Farías Gómez, Armando Tejada Gómez, César Isella, Victor Heredia, and Los Trovadores in Argentina. Some of the most important conceptual extended oeuvres of the period (called "cantatas") are analyzed (such as" La Cantata Popular Santa Maria de Iquique" in the Chilean case and "Montoneros" in the Argentine case). The contributors to the collection deal with the complex relationship that the aesthetic of the movements established between the political content of the lyrics and the musical and performative aspects of the most popular songs of the period. Book jacket.

Contents:

New song in Chile : half a century of musical activism / Nancy Morris

"Remembrance is not enough ..." ("no basta solo el recuerdo ...") : the cantata popular ; Santa María de Iquique 40 years after its release / Eileen Karmy Bolton

The Chilean new song's cueca larga / Laura Jordán González

Modern foundations of Uruguayan popular music / Abril Trigo

Popular music and the avant-garde in Uruguay ; The second canto popular generation in the 1970s / Camila Juárez

The rhythm of values : poetry and music in Uruguay, 1960-85 / María L. Figueredo

Atahualpa yupanqui : the Latin American precursor of the militant song movement / Carlos Molinero and Pablo Vila

A brief history of the militant song movement in Argentina / Carlos Molinero and Pablo Vila

The revolutionary patria and its new (wo)men : gendered tropes of political agency and popular identity in Argentine folk music of the long 1960s / Illa Carrillo Rodríguez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739183243

0739183249

OCLC:

867765708