The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century

From Folklore to Militancy

Tânia da Costa Garcia - Translated by John Christopher McGowan

The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century: From Folklore to Militancy takes an unprecedented comparative analysis approach to the complex relationship between popular music and culture, society, and politics in Latin America as it relates to representations of national identity. Tânia da Costa Garcia analyzes archival research in Chile, Brazil and Argentina, which have very similar cultural and political processes. This book is divided into two different parts: the first focuses on how the folk studies movement was legitimized in Chile, Brazil, and Argentina; while the second emphasizes the rich history of how the militant song movement in Spanish America was received, transformed, and transmitted to Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century. This book will be especially useful to scholars of Latin American studies, music studies, cultural studies, and history.

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Pages: 186 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4985-7102-9 • Hardback • August 2019 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-4985-7103-6 • eBook • August 2019 • $99.50 • (£77.00)

Series: Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America

Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Latin, History / Latin America / South America, Social Science / Culture

The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century

From Folklore to Militancy

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Summary

The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century: From Folklore to Militancy takes an unprecedented comparative analysis approach to the complex relationship between popular music and culture, society, and politics in Latin America as it relates to representations of national identity. Tânia da Costa Garcia analyzes archival research in Chile, Brazil and Argentina, which have very similar cultural and political processes. This book is divided into two different parts: the first focuses on how the folk studies movement was legitimized in Chile, Brazil, and Argentina; while the second emphasizes the rich history of how the militant song movement in Spanish America was received, transformed, and transmitted to Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century. This book will be especially useful to scholars of Latin American studies, music studies, cultural studies, and history.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 186 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4985-7102-9 • Hardback • August 2019 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-4985-7103-6 • eBook • August 2019 • $99.50 • (£77.00)

Series: Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America

Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Latin, History / Latin America / South America, Social Science / Culture

Author

Tânia da Costa Garcia is professor and researcher of history and social history at Paulista State University.

Table 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)

Reviews

The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century provides a contextual analysis of musical practices as an expression of identity in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. Garcia (history and social history, Paulista State Univ., Brazil) sustains her analysis with solid ethnographic and historical data that reveal how and why songs have emerged and their stylistic and functional evolution, as products of specific cultures that define the perimeter within which music evolved. The book is an excellent model of ethnographic and ethnomusicological analysis, and the information it provides reveals the hidden social roles of songs in their respective context, in time and space. Garcia structures the book in two. . . sections. Part 1, “From Folklore to Mass Media,” comprises seven chapters devoted to folk music traditions from Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, highlighting the characteristics that identify the songs with their respective country. In part 2, “The Militant Song in Latin America" (two chapters), the author outlines the role of militant songs in various political movements. All this is written in language accessible to all readers. The book closes with a generous reference list.
Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

— Choice Reviews

The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century

From Folklore to Militancy

Tânia da Costa Garcia - Translated by John Christopher McGowan

The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century

From Folklore to Militancy

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