Ecos del Rexurdimento. Las canciones de Juan José Castro y Roberto Caamaño con poemas de Rosalía de Castro
Abstract
Roberto Caamaño’s Dos cantos gallegos and Juan José Castro’s Dos canciones de Rosalía de Castro used the Galician poetess as their voice, at a significant historical-cultural moment in Argentina. The choice of these poems is revealing of the Galician presence in twentieth-century Argentine culture, which, by means of migration, took experiences amassed throughout its history across the Ocean.
The reason behind the concordance between the two composers (of Galician origins) is their will to form part of a movement to rescue and disseminate one of the most outstanding elements of the Galician heritage in exile, the Galician language.
In setting these poems to music, both composers have employed certain musical references to rhythms or melodic motives alluding to Galicia, which are used to evoke moments or places. This is also worthy of analysis, in order to complete the perception of the “rexurdimento” or the phenomenon of Galician nationalism in Argentina around the 1940s and 1950s.
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