Abstract

GUILLAMON, Guillermina. From Bragado to Nueva York: A Local Tenor Adrift in the Cultural Plot of International Opera. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2021, vol.13, n.27, pp.49-78.  Epub Mar 20, 2021. ISSN 2145-132X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v13n27.85621.

This article rebuilds and explores Florencio Constantino's trajectory, that of a Basque immigrant who would arrive in Buenos Aires as a workman and would turn into an internationally renowned tenor and a star of the emerging record labels in less than ten years. Apart from this uniqueness, an exceptional nature, the entrepreneur by himself's trajectory becomes a prism thorough which we can approach the cultural turn-of-thecentury experiences, either successful or truncated. Rebuilding his life history is accomplished by addressing documentary corpus made by the 1890-1910 press, both national and international. The methodology proposed for this analysis considers qualitative tools from regional history to reinstate micro specialties in a macro context and those from a pragmatic perspective to allow us focus on the courses of action Constantino took. The article shows, across this itinerary, how the analysis on the cultural trajectories based on the margins of the cultural center sheds light on the specific ways of experiencing and owing the cultural modernity as well as those of accounting for the emergency of the new ways of recognition, passion and artistic circuits.

Keywords : Florencio Constantino; biographical trajectory; cultural modernity; musical culture; Buenos Aires; XIX-XX century.

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