Charly’s Angels

between the idealized ser nacional of the Argentine Proceso and the demythologized ser nacional of Argentine Rock

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Keywords:

Rock and dictatorship, Rock in Argentina, Charly García and La Máquina

Abstract

In this study, we shall analyze the monolithic and idealized discourse of the ser nacional, which the regime imposed, in contrast to the
more realistic and polyphonic vision of national identity as seen in the lyrics of Charly García’s songs. Whereas the regime bombarded Argentines with rhetoric about obedient wives and daughters, in La Máquina songs, women are protagonists: heroines, goddesses, and dancers. García replaces the nineteenth-century “Angel of the home” proposed by the regime with his own angels: the independent women of the twentieth century.

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Author Biographies

Mara Favoretto, University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC (Australia)

Mara Favoretto is a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she coordinates and teaches a range of Language and Culture Studies subjects. She specializes in contemporary popular culture and popular music lyrics as counter discourse in cultural crisis. Her research interests include rhetorical tropes used to encode subversive messages under the constraints of censorship and cultural expressions of resistance in Latin American society. She is the author of Alegoría e ironía bajo censura en la Argentina del Proceso (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010).

Timothy Wilson , University of Alaska, Fairbanks, U.S.A.

Timothy Wilson is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Literature at the University of Alaska Fairbanks whose work centers on music, identity, and popular cultures of resistance in Latin America. Dr. Wilson is the author of numerous articles on Argentine rock music and dictatorship, and several others on musician Kevin Johansen and hybrid identities in the globalized world.

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2014-11-20

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Favoretto, Mara, and Timothy Wilson. 2014. “Charly’s Angels: Between the Idealized Ser Nacional of the Argentine Proceso and the Demythologized Ser Nacional of Argentine Rock”. Per Musi, no. 30 (November):1-11. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/38860.

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No. 30 (2014): General Topics

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Articles in Portuguese/Spanish

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