César López, the Escopetarra and the Memorialization of the Colombian Armed Conflict: Technologies and Apparatuses of Care
Colombian musician and activist César López has comforted victims of the Colombian civil war throughout his career. His songs, albums, and artistic-social projects memorialize painful recent-history events and human rights violations. In 2003, López created the escopetarra, a musical instrument that...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/37846 |
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| Sumario: | Colombian musician and activist César López has comforted victims of the Colombian civil war throughout his career. His songs, albums, and artistic-social projects memorialize painful recent-history events and human rights violations. In 2003, López created the escopetarra, a musical instrument that combines a rifle and a guitar. Thereafter, López has been a UN messenger of non-violence. I consider that his compositions are not only sonic memorials but are also musical gifts and, thus, technologies of care. Moreover, as Lopez’s works challenges the logics of heteronormative masculinity, I analyze this case through the feminist and gender studies lenses. I support these claims with data gathered through netnography of several online-concerts and talks, interviews with López, reading journalistic sources, and observing Lopez’s interventions’ online records. I propose that López’s musical gifts operate homologously to memorializations as both share the categorization of technologies of care. Finally, I conclude that Lopez’s activism promotes the democratization of care as he destabilizes the exclusive association of care to the feminine and proposes new masculinities. |
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