Chilean folk singers and the female songbook of medieval Spain
Abstract
This paper proposes a dialogue between the songs of women in medieval Spain and the production of Chilean female popular singers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from a transatlantic perspective. It questions the assumption that the Chilean songbook is heavily influenced by peninsular poetic compositions. By problematizing the colonial logic of cultural reproduction, it also attempts to read the songs of Chilean women and those of the Hispanic Middle Ages in their relationship with the so-called "women’s song", as a unique stylistic option of cross-border and transhistorical relevance.
In line with the above, it proposes that the recognizable proximity between both productions cannot lead to the forgetting of other songs, such as those of Mapuche women, which indisputably coexist with the production of Chilean folk singers.
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