| Popis: |
The Festival de la Solidaridad Latinoamericana, when in the middle of the Malvinas / Falklands War many figures of the rock nacional played for sixty thousand people, still sparks passionate discussions, among those who see it as the infamous day the rockers collaborated with the dictatorship, and those who highlight its pacifist dimension, and how it allowed Argentine rock to be legitimized. But even if it is the only musical event that lingers in the collective memory, it was one among dozens of concerts to benefit the Fondo Patriótico Malvinas Argentinas. Also Folklorists, classical musicians, “tangueros”, singers of boleros or cumbia groups, illustrious figures and second-line artists, gathered in institutions like the Teatro Colón or in ephemeral groups, organized concerts that the mass media generously covered to show the people’s support for the military adventure. Their analysis is the core of this article, together with that of other musical events associated with the war, namely as propaganda. This empirical material is conceptualized as part of a “war culture”, a moment of social totalization implying the consent of the actors, which in the Argentine case temporarily transformed the political configuration of the dictatorship. |
