The appropriation of folklore in the construction of national-popular in Argentina, from 1949 to 1976

• Grant number: 11/12434-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2011
• End date: September 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of America
• Principal Investigator: Tania da Costa Garcia
• Grantee: Tania da Costa Garcia
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Since the government of Juan Domingo Peron, in 1946, until the military coup, in 1976, it has been observed different forms of appropriation of the popular universe, called folk, by groups linked or not linked to power, in order to constitute a national culture able to legitimize, at a given time, the hegemonic power, and in the other times, to legitimize groups that identified with the ideologies of left, opposed to the dominant order. The examination of different ways of the national-popular setting during that period, in both cases mentioned, guiding the course of this research. (AU)