Charly García: allegory and rock
Allegory is an old rhetorical figure that transcended history and keeps re-emerging in different forms, as an effective and malleable symbolic mode. During the military dictatorship in Argentina -period known as the Process- (1976-1983), as a reaction to censorship, allegory seems to be one of the m...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2013
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/muspop/article/view/12971 |
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| Summary: | Allegory is an old rhetorical figure that transcended history and keeps re-emerging in different forms, as an effective and malleable symbolic mode. During the military dictatorship in Argentina -period known as the Process- (1976-1983), as a reaction to censorship, allegory seems to be one of the main rhetorical strategies used in the lyrics of the songs of the rock nacional movement. Following Fletcher (1964), for whom allegory is a dialectical method of interpretation that tries to decode what is hidden in any type of image and text, this study explores the songs composed by Charly García during the first five years of the dictatorship. This musician, arguably one of the main representatives of the rock nacional genre, is characterized by producing complex allegories which, when re-visited decades later, keep revealing possible associations, proving the transcendentalism of this symbolic mode. |
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| ISSN: | 2316-7858 |
