Activism, Authority, and Aesthetics: Finding the Popular in Academies of Música Popular
Música popular in Spanish comprises an overlapping but distinct category from its English language cognate popular music. Latin American scholars and musicians alike recognize the category as fundamentally linked to subaltern or counterhegemonic subjectivities, and música popular occupies a complex...
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International Association for the Study of Popular Music
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| description | Música popular in Spanish comprises an overlapping but distinct category from its English language cognate popular music. Latin American scholars and musicians alike recognize the category as fundamentally linked to subaltern or counterhegemonic subjectivities, and música popular occupies a complex relationship to hegemonic institutions (the state, educational institutions, and the culture industry) in populist democracies like that of contemporary Argentina. Perhaps nowhere are these tensions between populism and hegemony more apparent than in state-sponsored schools of popular music that began to emerge in the 1980s. Based on an ethnographic study of the oldest and one of the best known of these schools in Latin America, this article explores the conceptual tensions inherent in the notion of a populist and counterhegemonic school of music, and provides evidence of the ways those tensions are expressed and partially resolved through discourse and musical performance in and outside of the classroom. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8dc724b044c84863b5e4fef7c7c75a952022-12-22T01:33:50ZengInternational Association for the Study of Popular MusicIASPM Journal2079-38712079-38712015-01-0151365310.5429/2079-3871(2015)v5i1.4enActivism, Authority, and Aesthetics: Finding the Popular in Academies of Música PopularMichael S. O’Brien0College of CharlestonMúsica popular in Spanish comprises an overlapping but distinct category from its English language cognate popular music. Latin American scholars and musicians alike recognize the category as fundamentally linked to subaltern or counterhegemonic subjectivities, and música popular occupies a complex relationship to hegemonic institutions (the state, educational institutions, and the culture industry) in populist democracies like that of contemporary Argentina. Perhaps nowhere are these tensions between populism and hegemony more apparent than in state-sponsored schools of popular music that began to emerge in the 1980s. Based on an ethnographic study of the oldest and one of the best known of these schools in Latin America, this article explores the conceptual tensions inherent in the notion of a populist and counterhegemonic school of music, and provides evidence of the ways those tensions are expressed and partially resolved through discourse and musical performance in and outside of the classroom.https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/view/721/pdf_14música popularpopular music educationargentinatangocultural politicsethnography of music education |
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