Criollismo, política y etnicidad en las ideas y el folklore de Eusebio Dojorti / Buenaventura Luna

ADAMOVSKY, EZEQUIEL

Barcelona

Congreso; XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; 2018

Latin American Studies Association

XXXVIInternational Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona (España), 23 al 26 de mayode 2018. PONENCIA: Criollismo, política y etnicidad en las ideas y el folklore de Eusebio Dojorti / Buenaventura LunaThis paper analyzes Buenaventura Luna?s career as a folk musician, writer and radio entertainer in Argentina, from c. 1937 to 1955, by tracing connections to his earlier life as Eusebio Dojorti (his real name), an activist of the radical ?Bloquista? movement of San Juan, and later on as a supporter of Perón. A similar cultural program can be discerned in both his political ideas and his musical and radio endeavors. Luna was convinced of the necessity to vindicate the criollo, long time oppressed under elitist projects that systematically favored European immigrants. But unlike nationalists and other participants in the folklore movement, Luna was not so much interested in rescuing the ?spiritual? legacy of traditions, as in improving the lives of the lower classes of the present. With this aim in mind, Luna produced a noteworthy body of work, in which he challenged the official discourses of the nation ?according to which Argentina was a white-European country? by illuminating the ethnic heterogeneity of the native population and the diversity of its colors. But in doing so, Luna was not only proposing an intellectual project, but also dealing with his own personal experience as a dark-skinned provinciano living in ?white? Buenos Aires.