Abstract

BERNAND, Carmen. Identifications: Mestiza Music, Popular Music and Counterculture in America (16th – 19th Centuries). hist.crit. [online]. 2014, n.54, pp.21-48. ISSN 0121-1617.

The music of the Americas, product of a triple mixture of European, African and American elements, is progressively constituted starting in the 16th century. Sounds, body movements, and song lyrics all require a spectacle originally sponsored by the Catholic church. The possibility of transcribing profane songs into "divine" verses (and vice versa) favored secularization, individualization and popular appropriation of melodies and lyrics. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the identification produced by these musical forms, through the themes of love as personal sentiment, of sensuality and transgression. It also deals with the relevance of authenticity as a normative criterion.

Keywords : Music; dancers; identification; spectacles; cultural mixtures.

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