Argentina

Gaucho Poetry and Payador Balladry: Calculations to Define a Nation.

Submitted by Kaitlin E. Thomas on January 14, 2020 - 1:20pm
Abstract: this essay discusses late nineteenth and early twentieth century Argentine nacionalismo musical. It examines the role that this genre had in the process of forming a national Argentine identity and the ways that it occupies a dual role in the musical and literary worlds. A consideration of the strategy to couple payador ballads with gaucho poetry by elite writers and composers will demonstrate how the gaucho came to be utilized as a calculated token of Argentineness.
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Argentina
gaucho
gaucho literature
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payador
nacionalismo musical
national identity
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