Problematizando la canción popular: un abordaje comparativo (y sonoro) de la canción latinoamericana "comprometida" desde los años 1960

• Main Author: Ernesto Donas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2015-06-01
• Series: Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
• Subjects: Latin American song; critical comparison; representation
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/67824

Under different social and political situations in Latin America, the “politically engaged” popular song has been a vehicle of expression and participation in social processes as well as a rich source for the study of these processes. Various issues arise through the comparative analysis of these situations together with a series of songs. Using the idea of “travel,” I critically compare a series of parallel and interrelated movements commonly considered part of the “(New) Latin American Song.” The goal is to generate debate on the poetic and musical ways of articulating traditions, identities (national, local, regional, Latin American) and representations of class and race – among others – and ideologies in different historical contexts.