Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century - From Folklore to Militancy

This book is a comparative analysis of the history of popular music and folk studies in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil as it relates to society, culture, and representations of national identity.

List of contents

Preface: Brief Considerations on Music as the Historian's Subject of Investigation
Chapter 1: Folklore, Folk Music and the Constitution of a Mixed-Race National Identity
Chapter 2: The Chilean Folk Songbook: From Música Típica to Nueva Canción
Chapter 3: Folklorizing the Popular: A Resistance Operation Against Cultural Globalization in 1950s Brazil
Chapter 4: The Gaucho, Folklore and the Mass Politics of Juan Domingo Perón
Chapter 5: A Single Songbook for all Argentines
Chapter 6: Neither Country nor City: An Imagined Between-Place for the Argentine FolkSong
Chapter 7: Atahualpa Yupanqui: A Dissonant Note in Juan Domingo Perón's Folk Songbook
Chapter 8: Art and Revolution: a Comparative Study of the Manifesto do Centro Popular de
Cultura (Manifesto of the Popular Center of Culture) and the Manifiesto del Nuevo Cancionero (Manifesto of the New Songbook)
Chapter 9: The Sounds and Meanings of the Latin American Militant Song in Brazil Under Dictatorship Rule (1970)

About the author

By Tânia da Costa Garcia - Translated by John Christopher McGowan

Summary

This book is a comparative analysis of the history of popular music and folk studies in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil as it relates to society, culture, and representations of national identity.

Product details

• Authors: T. Da Costa Garcia, Tania Da Costa Garcia, Tânia da Costa Garcia
• Assisted by: John Christopher McGowan (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781498571029
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7102-9
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America; Music, Culture, and Identity i; Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Südamerika, Amerikanische Geschichte, Rock, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, South America, Rock & Pop music, Pop Musik, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Latin, History of the Americas, Other global and regional music styles