Poesía y modernidades en la canción popular latinoamericana

Abstract

This article presents a reflection on the bolero and the ranchera as folklore/popular music. This paper establishes that these two genres are conceived as two distinct ways in which the Latin American subject has faced modern life and the values of modernity as acceptance and a waiver, respectively. We use the category of sensorium of Walter Benjamin to show a particular way in which these popular genders shape particular forms of ideology, sensitivity and individuality. In this analysis we used a hermeneutical analysis of a musical poetic corpus in which coexist different ways of understanding and seeing individuals, the city, the aesthetic pleasure and transcendence. The lyrics of the songs presented here from both bolero and ranchera, enter into dialogue to show their crosses and differences. In sum, this paper presents a way of being of the sensitivity character and sentimental education of the Latin American subject that has been inherited to it through demonstrations of popular music and popular culture.