Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century

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.

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

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)