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Songs, memories and identities : the bolero and sentimental education in contemporary Mexico
thesis
posted on 2012-04-04, 13:53 authored by Maria del Carmen De la PezaThe confluence of singers, composers and audiences within
contemporary Mexican culture, produces a "bolero effect" in which the
bolero tradition of the popular love song is established as a complex
network of relationships between actors and spaces. The relationships
between public discourses about romance, courtship and self identities,
is produced and secured by the deployment of a variety of codes and
languages that together constitute love as a shared memory.
Collective and personal memory are strongly related. The process of
interpreting and responding to the bolero is rooted· not only in
individual biography but also in the life of the community to which a
person belongs, and which provides him/her with frames of reference
within which to organise memory, a kind of mental map drawn up by
language.
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the complex and contradictory
interplay between the public presentation and proliferation of the
bolero, and the intimate, unique, experience of love. The first part of
the thesis explores the public culture of the bolero as it travels along
trajectories linking live performance to radio, cinema, records and
television. The second part explores the experiences and responses of
male and female subjects from two contrasting class locations in
contemporary Mexico City.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Publisher
© Maria del Carmen De la PezaPublication date
1997Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.EThOS Persistent ID
uk.bl.ethos.285862Language
- en