The Dagger of Dispossession Will Be Ripped Out

The Malvinas/Falkland Islands in Argentine Song (1941-82)

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ID4885561
AuthorsSebastián Carassai (0000-0003-0078-264X, National University of Quilmes, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume53
Issue4
Pages717-740
Publication date2021-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x21000766
OpenAlexW3214105728
LanguageEN
References cited7

In April 1982, Great Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands/Malvinas. On 14 June, the defeated Argentine military began the evacuation of the Islands. Most Argentines came to view this short war as an absurd adventure entered into by a military dictatorship in decline trying to cling on to power. Yet by analysing Argentine songs about the Malvinas from 1941 to 1982, this article shows that the national imaginary had long included ideas of sovereignty usurped and captive islands awaiting redemption. Argentine songs about the Malvinas, I maintain, can be analysed as expressions of an 'emotional community' around the Islands. By examining the emphases, constants and changes in the songs emerging from that community, we get a clearer picture of how ideas about the territory and its recovery changed over time

Adventure · Ancient history · Art history · Dictatorship · Economic history · Physics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sovereignty · The Imaginary · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · History of Emotions Research · Law · Music History and Culture

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