Rock ’n’ roll, «nueva ola» and garage rock: an aesthetic explanation of the rise of rock music in Peru

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https://doi.org/10.21142/DES-1501-2023-0006

Keywords:

rock, nueva ola, garage rock, Peruvian rock, popular music history

Abstract

In their most widespread texts, peruvian rock historians promote semantic ambiguities around terms as rock ’n’ roll , «nueva ola» and rock music, and leave an explanatory gap in relation to the rise of rock music in Peru. This article clarifies these ambiguities and offers an explanation to the rise of rock music in Peru. The author proposes an aestheric approach based on social functions that musicians and listeners assign to a set of musical parameters in a certain historical context. In the end, the article clarifies the meaning of the terms that designate these music genres, and shows that the rise of rock music in Peru involved the continuity of some features of the genres that preceded it, and the appearance of innovations sufficiently important as to define the birth of a new musical genre in this country. 

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Author Biography

  • Francisco Melgar Wong, Universidad Científica del Sur. Lima, Perú

    Licenciado en Filosofía y magíster en Musicología por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Su tesis La construcción de lo punk en el discurso historiográfico sobre la música de la banda peruana Los Saicos ganó el fondo para investigación PAIP 2019, otorgado por la PUCP para el desarrollo y sustentación de su tesis de maestría. Ha publicado en Contrapulso, revista latinoamericana de estudios en música popular, Centro de Sonido, archivo digital de música experimental y arte sonoro en el Perú, y Antec, revista peruana de investigación musical. 

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Published

2023-01-30

How to Cite

Rock ’n’ roll, «nueva ola» and garage rock: an aesthetic explanation of the rise of rock music in Peru . (2023). Desde El Sur, 15(1), e0006. https://doi.org/10.21142/DES-1501-2023-0006

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