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La música popular en la novela Carnaval de Sodoma de Pedro Antonio Valdez
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Abstract
This work analyzes primarily the role of popular music in the novel Carnaval de
Sodoma by Pedro Antonio Valdez. It focuses particularly on the function of this type of
music as it reflects gender relationships. The first chapter discusses diverse
interpretations on the concept of popular music, the general characteristics of popular
musical rhythms in the novel and the theoretical ideas of the carnival as presented by
Mikhail Bakhtin. These theoretical positions underlie the analysis of the lyrics in the
popular music songs in the novel in the context of a carnivalesque world that questions
gender relationships. The second chapter presents a study of the lyrics of three songs: “Él
me mintió” by Amanda Miguel, “Secretaria” by Mocedades y “Olvídame y pega la
vuelta” by Pimpinela. The lyrics of these songs and the context in which they appear
within the novel allows for the identification of roles and stereotypes assigned to women
and how they respond to these roles and stereotypes. These songs present a momentary
reversal of the patriarchal order strengthened by the carnivalesque. Likewise, in the third
chapter, tango, bachata and bolero lyrics of songs presented in the novel permits an
analysis of the perception of men over women. Tango song “Esta noche me emborracho”
by Carlos Gardel, bachatas “Voy pa’llá” and “El hombre de tu vida” by Anthony Santos
and Joe Veras, respectively, and bolero “Luz de luna” by José José allow, on the one
hand, for men’s complaint on the irruption of the patriarchal order in society, and on the
other hand, the demand that it be reestablished.
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2014
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Música popular