Music in the Construction of Argentine Cultural Identity: The Guitar Topos in the Works of Early Nationalism.
Abstract
The importance attributed to the guitar as a musical emblem of "Argentine identity" is clearly discernible in both literary and visual arts discourses from the late 19th century onwards. However, within the academic musical discourse of the so-called "Generation of '80," its articulation is more complex, as it is rhetorical rather than explicit. The aim is not to include the guitar as a musical instrument within the repertoire—from which it was virtually excluded—but rather to evoke its image as a musical object and symbol of the rural landscape through a combination of specific melodic, harmonic, textural, and/or rhythmic configurations. In this sense, the musical representation of the guitar constitutes one of the *topoi* of the musical rhetoric found in the first academic musical canon of modern Argentina—commonly known as nationalism. This study aims to examine this *topos* within the output of early nationalism, using the piano works of Alberto Williams and Julián Aguirre as an empirical basis; these composers were selected due to their importance—often regarded as foundational—in the establishment of this movement.
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