Textural development of the guitar in argentine chamamé: from the first commercial recordings to guitar ensembles
This paper presents some of the findings from an extensive research project, focusing on the interpretive criteria and accompanying resources of guitar playing in chamamé in Argentina throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. It analyzes chamamé groups in which the guitar has played a central ro...
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Universidad Nacional del Litoral
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/index/article/view/15117 |
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| Sumario: | This paper presents some of the findings from an extensive research project, focusing on the interpretive criteria and accompanying resources of guitar playing in chamamé in Argentina throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. It analyzes chamamé groups in which the guitar has played a central role, beginning with the earliest commercial recordings, then focusing on groups whose guitarists expanded the instrument’s textural function, and finally concentrating on Mateo Villalba’s LP (Cabal, 1985)—considerated as a historical watershed moment in this regard— and on the innovations that arose thereafter. We employed a qualitative methodology based fundamentally on the musical analysis of sonic materials, taking the recorded performances as the main text. Other ther sources—press articles, archival documents, bibliographic references, and first–hand oral accounts—are also used and cited in each case.The article aims to examine the different roles assumed by the guitar and its contributions to the shaping of the musical texture of chamamé during the period considered, highlighting its expansion and consolidation as one of the genre’s emblematic instruments. This research seeks to address a lingering topic in musical studies in Argentina and contribute to the field of knowledge about Argentine music through one of its most popular and representative musical expressions, declared an intangible cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO in 2020. |
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