Reescritura, memoria y emociones: ¿Existe una crónica musical contemporánea del continente americano en la música de Miguel del Águila? (original) (raw)

Latin American literature has an ancient connection to the genre of the chronicle. However, Latin American writers working in the contemporary chronicle genre have begun to rewrite history to refute the representations made by European or Eurocentric chroniclers and contribute to the epistemological decolonization of the American continent. Therefore, the question that arises concerns whether there are works of art music by contemporary Latin American composers’ equivalent to contemporary Latin American chronicles of literature? Thus, the purpose of this article is to study the interconnections that relate Latin American art music with the genre of the literary chronicle in Latin America through Latin American and Latin American cultural theory. From this perspective, this article focuses on the figure of the composer Miguel del Águila (Uruguay, 1957) and analyzes three of his works: TOCCATA, op. 28 (1989), RETURN, op. 66 (1999), and THE FALL OF CUZCO, op. 99 (2009). In conclusion, it is possible to identify that music, like literature, reconstructs facts, subjects, ideas, affections and becomes the reference for the symbolic and subjective rewriting of identity and memory, which generates new proposals of interdisciplinary artistic production.