Música, consumo y crítica cultural. Hacia un marco histórico y teórico para el estudio de los festivales en América Latina (1990-2020)

Spencer Espinosa, Christian

Keywords: latin america, culture, consumption, music, Festival

Abstract

The following article explains the importance of cultural and musical festivals in Latin America after the end of the period of dictatorships. The text proposes a historical and theoretical framework for the study of festivals in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking regions, with the aim of contributing to the consolidation of this subfield as an object of study in musical research. First, I offer a genealogy of the concepts of “festival” and “fiesta”. Then, I describe what I consider the approaches to and themes of this phenomenon and how it has been studied in the world. In a third part, I analyze music festivals in terms of their musical/cultural actors, globalization processes and forms of participation. Later, I expound how cultural and musical festivals have been studied in Latin America, to finally offer some basic conclusions. As a final point, I propose that festivals are a legitimate object of study with an increasing interest worldwide and the future of which is promising in the light of current research, especially within the field of musical studies.

Más información

Título de la Revista: Revista Argentina de Musicología
Volumen: 21
Número: 1
Editorial: Diego Madoery, Director
Fecha de publicación: 2020
Página de inicio: 21
Página final: 60
Idioma: Español
Financiamiento/Sponsor: Asociación Argentina de Musicología
URL: http://ojs.aamusicologia.org.ar/index.php/ram/article/view/327
Notas: Latindex, RILM.