Music, Politics, and Sentimentalism in Bolero
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4874268 |
|---|---|
| Authors | León F García Corona (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 138-168 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Music Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-0350 • E-ISSN: 1536-0199 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7560/lamr40202 |
| OpenAlex | W2991817735 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
Since its introduction to popular culture, bolero has come to represent nostalgia, love, and sentimentalism. Its multinational production and consumption spanning many decades have defied scholars’ efforts to pinpoint this musical genre to one location or cultural group. This article explores the bolero as a cultural artifact that voices social and political turmoil and discontent. I focus on three of the most important figures associated with the genre—Guty Cárdenas, Agustín Lara, and Pedro Infante—in an attempt to show how bolero contributes to the establishment of cultural practices that simultaneously denounce and perpetuate a discourse of economic struggle while providing symbolic and economic capital
Aesthetics · Art · Cultural capital · Literature · Multinational corporation · Musical · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Social science · Sociology · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Theater, Performance, and Music History
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |