State and music organizations in emergent configurations in the 2000s in Argentina Estado y organizaciones musicales en las configuraciones emergentes en los años 2000 en Argentina

BOIX, ORNELA

Resonancias

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Lugar: Santiago de Chile; Año: 2017 vol. 21 p. 129 - 144

0717-3474

This article tackles a specific way in which emergent music linked to the rock scene in Greater Buenos Aires (Argentina) met with State institutions during the 2009-2015 period, as part of the emergence of organizational forms in music which take part in a new form of institutionalization. It critically reviews the research that have dealt with the relationship between rock and politics in the last decades. Furthermore, it ethnographically describes the interwoven fabric between musical projects and public policy stemming from the National Ministry of Culture. Its findings show that, within this fabric, the linkage between musicians and the State was implanted in a new way and acquired a different legitimacy when compared to the negative and external relationship described in the revised literature. Based on this, the article argues for the need to grant positivity to the linkage between music and the State in order to improve the comprehension of contemporary music phenomena.