Música chilena andina 1970-1975: Construcción de una identidad doblemente desplazada

Abstract

This article examines Andean music as an artistic and social practice outside Andean communities and with no relation to its original purposes. Of interest are the paradoxes that this has caused in regard to the displacement of folk subjects, processes of cultural re-signification and political appropriation and rupture, together with the role of the music industry in all of this. The ties and mutual influences between Argentine, Bolivian and Chilean Andean groups are thus reviewed, all of which converged in Paris from the 1960s onwards, where they acquired the cosmopolitan and political connotations characteristic of them. The so-called boom in Andean music in Chile at the height of the military dictatorship is also re-examined, discussing the ruptures and apparent contradictions of this phenomenon.