Popular song and folklore. Poetics, aesthetics and identity discourses in the work of Gustavo “Cuchi” Leguizamón

Abstract

We propose to tackle the ideas of popular song and folklore in the work of Gustavo “Cuchi” Leguizamón with the end of understanding the unique position of this composer in the field of folklore, which is, at the same time, representative of an
outstanding trend in that context as identity ascription and aesthetic orientation. In the song, both as material and symbolic production, diverse senses of the national, the popular, the territorial, the creation, and the creativity are at play, as well as the
very concept of folklore, from dissimilar political and ideological orientations. For this reason, we are interested in exploring at least two main interwoven channels in the popular folklore song: the identity and aesthetic issue, to think about its tensions
and consider the heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity of insights that come into play around the representativeness, the authenticity, what is and what is not art, what is and what is not popular.