Delia Pamela Fuentes Korban
Author and Scholar
New Release
Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music
Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music examines the intersection between popular music from the 1990s—tango, rock chabón, and cumbia villera—historical events, and individual experiences. It argues that these songs are canciones con historia which depict history, provide a framework to evoke memories, and create “virtual sites of memory” online.
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“A fascinating study of the reception and meaning of popular music in the wake of large-scale political and economic upheaval, Delia Pamela Fuentes Korban’s Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music shows how diverse groups of listeners use music to remember and make sense of their individual and collective lives. Theorizing popular music as a polyvalent ‘place of memory’ and locating her discussion in the details of Argentine culture, politics, and history in the years straddling the devastating economic crisis of December, 2001, Fuentes Korban both updates and expands the scope of memory studies in Argentina in compelling and productive ways.”
Morgan Luker, Reed College
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“Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music forms a much-needed update and
expansion of earlier studies. Where Vila and others told the story of the Argentine people
in the authoritarian 1970s and 1980s, Memory and History carries that work forward to document the history of the country through the social genocide of the neoliberal ‘90s. Furthermore, Fuentes Korban’s thorough ethnographic interviews and insightful analysis of lyrics of tango, rock chabón and cumbia villera reveal that era’s canciones con historia as repositories of collective memory that help make sense of the Argentine experience.”
Timothy Wilson, Blackburn College
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"Narrating Lives" International Conference on Sotytelling
Centro Congressi Cavour, Rome, Italy
Dates: May 31-June 2, 2024
VIII Congress "Memories in Transit"
Pontificia Universidad Católica, Lima, Perú
Dates: July 28-20, 2024
Casa Argentina Foundation, Charlotte, NC
Dates: TBA
