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| Author(s): |
Natália Ayo Schmiedecke
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Franca. 2017-06-21. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Franca |
| Defense date: | 2017-05-26 |
| Advisor: | Tania da Costa Garcia |
| Abstract | |
The victory of Salvador Allende – Popular Unity’s (UP) candidate – in the 1970 Chilean presidential elections brought the imperative of constructing a “new culture” and a “new man”, generating intense debates in the intellectual environment. With the prospect of influencing the formulation of official cultural policies, several social scientists, writers, artists and activists of the UP member parties sought to postulate their bases, revealing heterogeneous and even contradictory positions in the discussions about the role that the “workers of culture” should play on the Chilean way to socialism. Focusing on the cultural debate within the left, the present thesis seeks to map it in order to situate the discourses and the artistic production linked to the Chilean New Song movement (NCCh), in order to demonstrate that, in the context studied, the musicians were part of the commited intelligentsia. The analysis was based mainly on the government-friendly press and the discs released between 1970 and 1973, verifying how the main trends observed in the cultural debate were manifested in the movement; the extent to which the positions defended by the musicians have been in tune with governmental purposes; and if they have in fact influenced the cultural policies debated and pursued by the UP between 1970 and 1973. From that, we sought to understand what elements contributed to the identification of the NCCh with the new values proposed by the political leaders, allowing the movement to be nationally and internationally consecrated as the main cultural reference of the Chilean left. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/04406-4 - The Chilean New Song Movement and the project of a "new culture" during the Popular Unity government (1970-1973) |
| Grantee: | Natália Ayo Schmiedecke |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |