Cumbia, na c ion and gender in Latinoaméri c to

Abstract

Cumbia, Nation and gender in Latin Americais a compilation of articles by different authors, made by Pablo Seman and Pablo Vila, published by the Gorla-EPC publishing house, in October 2011. The book addresses the future of cumbia and proposes a contextual analysis within the experience of the actors, conducting the study from the environment of use of the cumbia, without imposing exogenous and dominant categories. Authors maintain that, from the cultural studies of the Birmingham School, the idea of ​​assigning the audience of popular music the ability to produce meaning begins to prevail. This invites us to try to trace, underline and expose the way in which music "makes society". Here the first challenge of the text is inscribed: to locate cumbia within the academic field as a "worthy" problem. to be studied and not taken only as an "uncomfortable object" of sociology. In response to this, they find the relevance of this object of study in the importance that society gives to music. In a secularized society, stripped of meanings of transcendence, the massiveness of popular music should not be despised and forces us to take these phenomena seriously. For this, the authors try to show how cumbia is articulated in a network of meanings, which at the same time creates and reflects phenomena of genres, nation and ethnicity, in the construction of subjects that are recognized through music. In a secularized society, stripped of meanings of transcendence, the massiveness of popular music should not be despised and forces us to take these phenomena seriously. For this, the authors try to show how cumbia is articulated in a network of meanings, which at the same time creates and reflects phenomena of genres, nation and ethnicity, in the construction of subjects that are recognized through music