The 1960s: A key decade in the change of Argentine folk music

JULIANA GUERRERO

Campinas

Congreso; XVIII Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music; 2015

International Association for the Study of Popular Music

In the field of popular music, the Argentine folk scene underwent substantive changes throughout the 1960s. The so called ?Argentine folk music boom? initiated the emergence of a great number of music groups aiming at asserting ?national identity? and Argentine folk roots. These expressions were opposed by other movements such as the ?Nuevo Cancionero? and ?música de proyección folklórica?.The two latter movements gave rise to a complex process of creation of music practices in an urban context, which resulted in a series of actions and discourses oriented at defining what is ?our own? and what is ?foreign? and which looked to transform, accept, reject, mix and/or re-semantize genres, repertoires, performative practices, technological uses and other aspects of musical practices and of the routines which subjects generate around them.This study intends to identify the ties between these musical transformations and other dimensions of social life (social tensions, ideological beliefs, esthetic differences, etc.)The starting hypothesis is that the cultural context and the particular historical moment when these transformations happened allow for the revealing specific strategies of collective experimentation with sounds and meaning to observe the extent to which and the aspects on which the subjects participating in those scenes attempted to set policies for musical change.